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1 " The impossible is merely the possible for which we don't yet know the science "
― Rick Riordan , Daughter of the Deep
2 " I suppose I should get this out of the way. Harding-Pencroft is a five-year high school. We’re divided into four houses, based on the results of our aptitude tests. We call the academy HP for short. And, yes, we’ve heard all the Harry Potter jokes. Thanks anyway. "
3 " My dear, dying is nothing to be embarrassed about. It happens to everyone. "
4 " I hold up two fingers. 'How many fingers?'He squints. 'Twenty-five?''Yeah, you'll be fine. "
5 " The best science fiction can shape how humans see their own future. "
6 " Perhaps it started when, at the age of ten, I picked up a starfish by one of its arms…and soon found myself holding a single wiggling appendage. At the time, I didn’t know that starfish arms could regenerate. I believed I was a murderer. I fell to my knees and bellowed with horror. (CURSE YE, FORMIDABLE MIGHT! SUCH INNOCENCE…DESTROYED! DOES THIS MEAN I CAN PERMANENTLY SKIP GYM?) "
7 " Atlantis was just a theme park that went terribly wrong. "
8 " Nature’s creative poweris far beyond man’sinstinct of destruction. —Jules Verne,20,000 Leagues Under the Sea "
9 " don’t know what Land Institute’s school motto is, but I want it to be This is why we can’t have nice things. "
10 " Nothing happens.Then, suddenly...still nothing happens.Five more minutes pass. More nothing.The minutes turn into an hour. Funny how that happens when you put sixty of them together. "
11 " Top sits at my feet and wags his tail. He gives me his most soulful stare. I’m a very good boy. I almost killed someone earlier. "
12 " How to make twenty freshmen hyperactive: 1. Give them access to an espresso machine. 2. Offer them a safe haven after seventy-two hours of running from death. 3. Feed them a home-cooked meal made by an orangutan. 4. Tell them that tomorrow, they will get to see a make-believe submarine from the 1800s that is actually not make-believe. "
13 " time, tide, and dirty dishes wait for no one), "
14 " A tough conversation, and also the world’s strangest brunch. "
15 " One Piece. "
16 " Rhys "
17 " Yesterday was about shock, uncertainty, fear. Our world was shattered. Today, we have to figure out how to reassemble ourselves from the broken pieces. "
18 " Desperate times call for desperate comfort foods. "
19 " Dwight D. Eisenhower, comandante supremo de las fuerzas aliadas durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial: «Los planes no sirven de nada, pero la planificación lo es todo». "
20 " suppose I should get this out of the way. Harding-Pencroft is a five-year high school. We’re divided into four houses, based on the results of our aptitude tests. We call the academy HP for short. And, yes, we’ve heard all the Harry Potter jokes. Thanks anyway. "
