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41 " He warned me the greediest wishes cause the greatest sorrows. "
― Rick Riordan , The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus, #2)
42 " He remembered his home now, and that gave him new determination to succeed. He was fighting for two camps now -- two families. "
43 " Heroes like you always have a weak spot. We just have to find it, and then we can kill you. Won't that be lovely? Have a cheese 'n' Wiener! "
44 " Just keep moving! we're almost there." "almost where?" Juno chuckled. "all roads lead there child. you should know that" "detention?" Percy asked. "Rome, child, the old woman said. "Rome "
45 " Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians? "
46 " Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels. "
47 " June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility? "
48 " The horse seemed to bend time and space as he ran, blurring the landscape and making Frank feel like he'd just drunk a gallon of whole milk without his lactose-intolerance medicine: "Seven hundred and fifty miles per hour. Eight hundred. Eight hundred and three. Fast. very Fast. "
49 " Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable. "
50 " You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns sour in the end. But if you take the hard path - ah, that's how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something. "
51 " Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America. "
52 " A battle can be won before it's ever fought by choosing the right ground. "
53 " Ella is nervous,” the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. “The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella. "
54 " The old women only stuck around this long out of a sense of duty. Your mom was the same way. That's why I loved her. She put her duty first, ahead of evverything. "
55 " Percy hated tests. Since he'd lost his memory, his whole life was one big fill-in-the-blank. He was _____, from _____. He felt like _____, and if the monsters caught him, he'd be _____. "
56 " Frank Zhang: lumbering klutz, child of Mars, part-time pachyderm. "
57 " I'm fine!" Percy yelled out as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder. "
58 " Just his luck he was related to this grubby old dude. He hoped all sons of Neptune didn't share the same fate. First, you start carrying a man satchel. Next thing you know, you're running around in a bathrobe and pink bunny slippers, chasing chickens with a weed whacker. "
59 " He [Death] pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death tapped the screen a few times and all Frank could think was: Please don't let there be an app for reading souls "
60 " Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it! "