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“I’m sorry about that. I thought you were going to die.”
She sounded like she was close to crying.
“Hey, I’m usually about to die,” I promised. “Don’t feel bad.”

“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed.”

“Tell me, Percy. I have no wish to argue with you. But do you support the gods because they are good, or because they are your family?”

“What does it do?”
“Do?” Calypso mused. “It doesn’t really do anything, I suppose. It lives, it gives light, it provides beauty. Does it have to do anything else?”

“Some of us get thrown off mountainsides. Some of us…the way we learn not to trust people is even more painful.”

“Then she did something that really surprised me. She blinked back tears and put out her arms.”

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