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“Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“The real world is where the monsters are.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“You assume that it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist is that?”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

“Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“The sign was spray-painted in Arabic and English, probably from some attempt by the farmer to sell his wares in the market. The English read: Dates-best price. Cold Bebsi.
"Bebsi?" I asked.
"Pepsi," Walt said. "I read about it on the Internet. There's no 'p' in Arabic. Everyone here calls the soda Bebsi."
"So you have to have Bebsi with your bizza?"
"Brobably.”
― Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire

“Felix believed that the answer to every problem involved penguins; but it wasn't fair to birds, and I was getting tired of teleporting them back home. Somewhere in Antarctica, a whole flock of Magellanic penguins were undergoing psychotherapy.”
― Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire

“Our camels plodded along. Katrina tried to kiss, or possibly spit on Hindenburg, and Hindenburg farted in response. I found this a depressing commentary on boy-girl relationships.”
― Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire

“I sat up and the blankets fell away.I looked down and found I was wearing pokemon pajamas.
"Sadie,"I said,"I'm going to kill you."
She batted her eyes innocently."But the street merchant gave us a very good deal on those.Walt said they would fit you."
Walt raised his hand."Don't blame me,man.I tried to stick up for you."
Bes snorted,then did a pretty good imitation of Walt's voice:"At least get the extra-large ones with Pikachu.”
― Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire

“We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness.”
― Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire

“Life's pretty good, and why wouldnt it be? I'm a pirate, after all.”
― Johnny Depp

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”
― Horton Foote

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

“So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home. ”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I'm stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta. And it's so bizarre, even for Finnick.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Tick, tock.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets," I say in my best seductive voice.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Peeta crouches down on the other side of her and strokes her hair. When he begins to speak in a soft voice, it seems almost nonsensical, but the words aren’t for me. “With my paint box at home, I can make every color imaginable. Pink. As pale as a baby’s skin. Or as deep as rhubarb. Green like spring grass. Blue that shimmers like ice on water.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”
― William Shakespeare, The Sonnets

“And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”
― Raymond Carver

“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”
― Tony Kushner, Perestroika