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Annabeth nodded. "That's right.Alexander conquered Egypt.After he died, his general Ptolemy took over. He wanted the Egyptians to accept him as their pharaoh, so he mashed the Egyptian gods and the Greek gods together and made up new ones."
"Sounds messy," Sadie said. "I prefer my gods unmashed.


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RICK RIORDAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Accept the universe
As the gods gave it to you.
If the gods wanted to give you something e...
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RICK RIORDAN I see murky visions of other gods and rival magic."
That REALLY didn't sound good.
"What d...
RICK RIORDAN Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt.
"You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth.
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HOMER Homer was a true poet. He made the gods ridiculous.
MARTY RUBIN They're Lares. House gods."
"House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but large...
RICK RIORDAN The gods want you to laugh and above all they want you to laugh at them.
MARTY RUBIN Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods Tha...
LANGSTON HUGHES I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
PLAUTUS He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of gods.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Since Cleopatra died,
I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods
Detest my baseness.
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She was glad he couldn't see her fac...
RAINBOW ROWELL Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
ALAN W. WATTS At the ed of the hall stood a walnut door with a bronze plaque:

ASCLEPIUS

MD...
RICK RIORDAN He whom the gods love dies young.
MENANDER The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.
HOMER He nodded and curled over his paper, writing quickly. As his words took form on the white page, she ...
J.R. WARD The gods," he said. "Imprisoned in a thought. And perhaps they were never more than a dream.
TERRY PRATCHETT When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
PEARL S. BUCK New York was the Promised Land growing up. Writers were gods! The great gods of American culture... ...
THERESA REBECK As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image...
DONALD MARQUIS (D.R.P. MARQUIS) ("DON MARQUIS") Gods, he was brilliant. Cunning and wicked and brilliant.
Even when he beat the hell out of her...
SARAH J. MAAS Your favorite volhv showed up half an hour ago, complaining about his lack of sleep and stupid gods....
ILONA ANDREWS Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened...
ESTHER M. FRIESNER The king nodded. “What are the priests doing about this?” he said.

“I saw them thro...
TERRY PRATCHETT Gods of Olympus.” Piper stared at Leo. “What happened to you?”
His hair was grease...
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JAMES LOVEGROVE Everyone thinks you've been kidnapped," he said. "We've been scouring the ship. When Coach Hedge fin...
RICK RIORDAN Thirty minutes later, Rowan was still staring up at the ceiling, teeth gritted as he calmed the roar...
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BARBARA EHRENREICH Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk!
NATHANIEL LEE Once there lived in the ancient city of Afkar two learned men who hated and belittled each other's l...
KAHLIL GIBRAN It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants...
MARTIN SCORSESE And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
BIBLE If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods, Happy together, the gods themselves are helpless...
MAXWELL ANDERSON Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
OSCAR WILDE At each of those moments when he leaves the heights and gradually sinks toward the lairs of the gods...
ALBERT CAMUS As nations improve, so do their gods
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The gods we prayed to when we were young used up their time so long ago. They cannot answer anymore....
NEIL GAIMAN The victorious cause pleased the Gods, but the conquered one pleased Cato.
LUCAN Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Aren’t you afraid? The gods might send you down to some terrible hell for all the evil you’ve do...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation t...
WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Someday, Locke Lamora,” he said, “someday, you’re going to fuck up so magnificently, so ambiti...
SCOTT LYNCH It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm ...
THOMAS MERTON Drop something?" he asked, trying to suppress a smile but failing miserably at the act.
I nodde...
MARKELLE GRABO You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together."
"Y...
RICK RIORDAN A choice from the gods is as useless as the gods themselves!
KRATOS - GOD OF WAR This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods.
Prayer, he suspected as he hoist...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD She made up prayers and said them,
Worshipping unknown gods with unknown singing,
Her cust...
OVID He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.
MAXWELL ANDERSON Are you suggesting that the gods have trouble acting together, young lady?" Dionysus asked.
RICK RIORDAN Spanish, huh?" he said, glancing down at the scattered papers as he grabbed them. "Can you say anyth...
KODY KEPLINGER Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom h...
C. JOYBELL C. If you ever leave me again,’ she said, her eyes stinging, ‘I swear to all the gods-‘
Perc...
RICK RIORDAN Holy gods. He'd frozen the whole damn lake. He was THAT powerful?
SARAH J. MAAS Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, Wha...
BIBLE He is tolerated by the gods, perhaps because his stratagems and plans save them as often as they get...
NEIL GAIMAN He limped slowly over to his own wooden sword and stooped awkwardly to pick it up. Trailing it on th...
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po...
TERRY PRATCHETT The Greek gods had personalities like those of humans and struggled with one another for position an...
BARRY B. POWELL We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call t...
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY I know who you are,” he says.
Something about his tone causes my heart of smoke to flicker in...
JESSICA KHOURY Be Gods and make Gods.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then ho...
ALICE HOFFMAN I communicated with him regularly on e-mail. He was always upbeat about the war and believed in what...
BOB MARIANO The padres set great store by addressing prayer to personal gods: 'Genuine prayer exists only in rel...
ERNST JüNGER And yet here he was, looking at Jem Carstairs, a boy so fragile-looking that he appeared to be made ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Hugo learned that Prometheus had created humankind out of mud, and then stolen fire from the gods as...
BRIAN SELZNICK Those who the Gods would destroy First they would make angry Haliburton -Greek.
GREEK PROVERB No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the...
SOCRATES I pull on his fingers softly, tired of this talk. “I have something to tell you…”

H...
STEPHANIE LIACI [The child said] he took him to the bathroom and he says he whooped him. He had him bend over the co...
THELMA BRADLEY We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ...
JOHN GREEN Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.
JOSEPH ADDISON Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") The little boy who never grew up,
He trapped the frog and kills the rat,
He flew a kite, t...
QUETZAL Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughte...
EDMUND BURKE As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He just said he was so sorry that he had that on his record. He just wanted to clear his record befo...
FRANKIE HARRIS A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed, As if ...
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN If a faithful account was rendered of man's ideas upon the Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowle...
PAUL HENRI THIRY D'HOLBACH Wonderful, Annabeth thought. Her own mother, the most levelheaded Olympian, was reduced to a raving,...
RICK RIORDAN The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so call...
EZRA POUND Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE He was almost a poet in his old age and his notion of what happened took a poetic turn. 'I had come ...
SHERWOOD ANDERSON Emerson has said, "When half-gods go, the gods arrive." That is a very doubtful maxim. Better say, "...
C.S. LEWIS This is what it had come to. Glitter. How he thought glitter had been a good idea, the Gods only kne...
K.F. BREENE She needed Andrew Simpson Smith, it was that simple. And he had spent his life training to help peop...
SCOTT WESTERFELD The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbe...
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They tell me cool stuff."
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- Гррр! - обади...
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...
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RICK RIORDAN Can’t this thing go any faster?” Thalia demanded.
Zoe glared at her. “I cannot control tr...
RICK RIORDAN Erre es korakas, Blinky!" Dionysus cursed. "I will have your soul!
RICK RIORDAN In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame ...
RICK RIORDAN THAT'S IT!" Terminus cried. "That's AGAINST THE RULES!"
Polybotes frowned, obviously confused t...
RICK RIORDAN Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.
RICK RIORDAN Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.
RICK RIORDAN If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
RICK RIORDAN She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish.
RICK RIORDAN A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ...
RICK RIORDAN Gaea?” Leo shook his head. “Isn’t that Mother Nature? She’s supposed to have, like, flowers ...
RICK RIORDAN Humans see what they want to see.
RICK RIORDAN Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.
RICK RIORDAN Then she did something so unexpected Nico would later think he dreamed it. She walked up to Nico, wh...
RICK RIORDAN You will suffer, son of Hades!’
What else is new? Nico thought.
RICK RIORDAN This is so cool!" Nico said, jumping up and down in the driver's seat. "Is this really the sun? I th...
RICK RIORDAN Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea.
If I'd known what was coming, I would've called i...
RICK RIORDAN I had a crush on Percy," Nico spat. "That's the truth. That's the big secret.
RICK RIORDAN For a long time,’ Nico said, ‘I had a crush on you. I just wanted you to know.’ Percy looked a...
RICK RIORDAN He turned, registering a face with blond hair, and for a split second he thought it was Will Solace....
RICK RIORDAN Good. So you may be dense, but you’re not an idiot.’
‘How can you even talk to me like t...
RICK RIORDAN Nico," I said at last, "shouldn't you be sitting at the Hades table?"

He shrugged. "Techn...
RICK RIORDAN Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair.
RICK RIORDAN With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.
RICK RIORDAN Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can."
Grover cracked a smile....
RICK RIORDAN Because I know you, Percy Jackson. In many ways, you are impulsive, but when it comes to your friend...
RICK RIORDAN Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wro...
RICK RIORDAN What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apol...
RICK RIORDAN Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind...
RICK RIORDAN Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.
RICK RIORDAN I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue pla...
RICK RIORDAN Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand...
RICK RIORDAN Don't you ever feel like, what if the world really IS messed up? What if we COULD Do it all over aga...
RICK RIORDAN She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doin...
RICK RIORDAN The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.
RICK RIORDAN How did you die?"
"We er....drowned in a bathtub."
"All three of you?"
"It was a big ...
RICK RIORDAN Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between...
RICK RIORDAN Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs a...
RICK RIORDAN Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.
RICK RIORDAN I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster."

End of discussion.The Tita...
RICK RIORDAN We’ve arrived,” Leo announced. “Time to Split.”
Frank groaned. “Can we leave Valdez i...
RICK RIORDAN Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.
RICK RIORDAN Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy mountain cliff in Maine, Perc...
RICK RIORDAN You promised, Seaweed brain. We would not get separated! Ever again!
RICK RIORDAN Nico, I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest.
RICK RIORDAN Annabeth?” Percy said again. “You’re planning something. You’ve got that I’m-planning-s...
RICK RIORDAN