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“Vulcan?" Leo demanded. "I don't even LIKE Star Trek!”

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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

“So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because when you think you see something so fundamentally worthwhile in someone else, you don't look for the reasons - like bad timing or a negative bank balance - that might keep it out of your life. You commit to being strong enough to build your life around it, no matter what. In doing so, you begin to become the thing you admire.”

Thinking Looks Littles Matter Reason Enough Might Strong Sweet Needed Balance Negative No Matter What Commit Admire Cute Worthwhile Timing Helpless Adopted Strong Enough Bad Timing

Author:Gwen Cooper

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”

Source: Time and change

“There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular.”

Pain Powerful Emotion Youth Abyss Spectacular Fallacy Discreet True Ones Powerful Emotions

Book:Great House: A Novel

Source: Great House: A Novel

“As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Long Waiting

Book:In Cold Blood

Source: In Cold Blood

“As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.”

Long Stills Myth Beggar

Book:The Arcades Project

Source: The Arcades Project

“Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.”

Trying Sometimes Clear Cutting Areas Make Sense Gray Stop Trying Gray Area

Book:Halo

Source: Halo

“On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century...First of all, what style should I employ?”

Should Firsts Ends Reason Written Century Style Reflection Versions Latin Italian Publishing Should I Obscure Sober Monk Gothic

Book:The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“But sometimes you gotta do stuff you don’t want to do.”

Want Sometimes Stuff

Book:Burned: A House of Night Novel

Source: Burned: A House of Night Novel

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