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“The gods need heroes. They always have.”

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Rick Riordan, born on June 5, 1964, is an American author known for his works that blend mythology and fantasy elements. His most famous series, 'Percy Jackson & the Olympians,' combines Greek mythology with the experiences of modern teenagers. more

“It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t know what else to say except that life itself seemed very magical in those days: a web of symbol, coincidence, premonition, omen. Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together–my future, my past, the whole of my life–and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!”

Source: The Secret History

“From the window, above the clatter of pots and the slamming of cabinets, Francis was singing, as though it was the happiest song in the world: 'We are the little black sheep who have gone astray . . . Baa baa baa . . . Gentlemen songsters off on a spree . . . Doomed from here to eternity . . .”

World Littles Song Black Gone Singing Window Eternity Gentleman Pot Sheep Doomed Cabinets Black Sheep

Author:Donna Tartt

“And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.”

Humans Persons Faces Human Nature Students Saving Sense Of Humor

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.”

Limits Riches Principal Frugality Economy And Economics

Author:Edmund Burke

“Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.”

Littles Self Bits Little Bit Pity Chocolate Self Pity

Book:Dead Over Heels

Source: Dead Over Heels

“At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations and pondering all those big questions about the existence of God and the nature of evil and the mystery of death, questions which seemed more important than anything else in the would until a few years passed and some real questions had been dumped into your lap, like how to earn a living, and why people fell in and out of love, and how long you could carry on smoking and then give up without getting lung cancer.”

“I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down”

Found Fields

Book:Poems by John Clare

Source: Poems by John Clare

“So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.”

Looks May My Own Imperfect My Own Life Clumsy

Book:Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.”

Men Made Age Simple Decision Middle Strange Odd Neglect Allowing Middle Ages Odd Things

Author:Richard Russo

“As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.”

Thinking Men Writing Long Book Ends Term Live Life Rejects

Book:The Brooklyn Follies

Source: The Brooklyn Follies

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