“Hey.” [Leo] squeezed her hand, though Hazel sensed nothing romantic in the gesture. “Machines are designed to work.”
“Uh, what?”
“I figure the universe is basically like a machine. I don’t know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or capital-G God, or whatever. But it chugs along the way it’s supposed to most of the time. Sure, little pieces break and stuff goes haywire once in a while, but mostly . . . things happen for a reason. Like you and me meeting.”
“Leo Valdez,” Hazel marveled, “you’re a philosopher.”
― The House of Hades
“Uh, what?”
“I figure the universe is basically like a machine. I don’t know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or capital-G God, or whatever. But it chugs along the way it’s supposed to most of the time. Sure, little pieces break and stuff goes haywire once in a while, but mostly . . . things happen for a reason. Like you and me meeting.”
“Leo Valdez,” Hazel marveled, “you’re a philosopher.”
― The House of Hades
“I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster."
End of discussion.The Titan hefted his spear and they continued marching into the gloom.”
― The House of Hades
End of discussion.The Titan hefted his spear and they continued marching into the gloom.”
― The House of Hades
“Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.”
― The House of Hades
― The House of Hades
“Lots of death, huh? Personally, I'm trying to avoid lots of death, but you guys have fun!”
― The House of Hades
― The House of Hades
“Jason's fingers itched to draw his sword. He'd met plenty of scary demigods, but he was starting to realize that Nico di Angelo--as pale and gaunt as he looked--might be more than he could handle.”
― The House of Hades
― The House of Hades
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