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In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.


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RICK RIORDAN People usually asked her if she had a belly button. Of course she had a belly button. She couldn't e...
RICK RIORDAN Athena stood in the middle of the road with her arms crossed and a look on her face that made me thi...
RICK RIORDAN Athena called, "Annabeth Chase, my own daughter."
Annabeth squeezed my arm, then walked forward...
RICK RIORDAN I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, ...
RICK RIORDAN She studied me with concern. She touched the new streak of gray in my hair that matched hers exactly...
RICK RIORDAN There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.
RICK RIORDAN The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never...
RICK RIORDAN Not knowing is half the fun," Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you ...
RICK RIORDAN Annabeth gripped the hilt of her dagger. “A bounty on our heads . . . as if we didn’t attract en...
RICK RIORDAN The cord, a familiar voice said. Remember your lifeline, dummy!
Suddenly there was a tug in my ...
RICK RIORDAN You sneaked into my cabin?”
Annabeth rolled her eyes. “Percy, you’ll be seventeen in two ...
RICK RIORDAN I learned a long time ago: Never bet against Annabeth.
RICK RIORDAN Hoover Dam," Thalia said. "It's huge."
We stood at the river's edge, looking up at a curve of c...
RICK RIORDAN And,” Annabeth continued, “it reminds me how long we’ve known each other. We were twelve RICK RIORDAN He had no idea where the stereotype of dumb giggly blondes came from. Ever since he'd met Annabeth a...
RICK RIORDAN I could have killed you.”
“Or I could have killed you,” Percy said.
Jason shrugged....
RICK RIORDAN I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? Yo...
RICK RIORDAN Argh!" Thalia pushed me, and a shock went through my body that blew me backward ten feet into the wa...
RICK RIORDAN This is Annabeth,” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people.
RICK RIORDAN You drool when you sleep.
RICK RIORDAN Hey, can I see that sword you were using?"
I showed him Riptide, and explained how it turned fr...
RICK RIORDAN I'm calm," Rachel insisted. "Every time I'm around you, some monsters attack us. What's to be nervou...
RICK RIORDAN Remind me again-why do you hate me so much?"

I don't hate you."

Could've foole...
RICK RIORDAN Leo: Rainbows. Very macho.
Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the...
RICK RIORDAN It's okay,” he said. “We're together.” He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive...
RICK RIORDAN Monkey bar," Annabeth said. "I'm great at these." She leaped onto to the first rung and start swingi...
RICK RIORDAN She raised an eyebrow. "You got something to say to me, Seaweed Brain?"

You'd probably ki...
RICK RIORDAN Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up.
"Y...
RICK RIORDAN