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Not all powers are spectacular. Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.


Rick Riordan

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Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the ...
RICK RIORDAN To my wonderful readers:
Sorry about that last cliff-hanger.
Well, no, not really. HAHA...
RICK RIORDAN I don't recommend shadow travel if you're scared of:
a) The dark
b) Cold shivers up your s...
RICK RIORDAN Live fully and without fear
RICK RIORDAN APOLLO'S DAILY MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH

"You are gorgeous and people love you!
RICK RIORDAN Cinnamonrolls are good for harpies.' She [Ella] said.
RICK RIORDAN I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez
RICK RIORDAN You speak horse?" Hazel asked.
"Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mea...
RICK RIORDAN Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma."
Bacchus ...
RICK RIORDAN If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.
RICK RIORDAN Maybe I should have resented him, but I didn't. After losing my mother, I didn't have patience for g...
RICK RIORDAN To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolut...
RAFAEL CORREA Now, leave."
All three boys slumped forward. Percy fell face-first into his pizza.
"Perc...
RICK RIORDAN The doubt has the mysterious power to bring out the hidden reality of life.
ANUJ SOMANY Hey you the "Supreme Power Within Myself" uplift my soul that I make no more mistakes and patiently ...
NEHA KOTHARI If you look at a stream or river and close your eyes it will be amazing the flow of ideas that will ...
GARY F EVANS... The power of man;Man does not only have the power to accomplish great & unbelievable things in life,...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Acknowledge and express your mistakes so you can prove to yourself and others that you can learn and...
SERGIO ORTIZ Bob says hello," he told the stars.
RICK RIORDAN Tyson put his hand on Grover´s shoulder "I -I will go with him."
I couldn´t believe I was hea...
RICK RIORDAN The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!
RICK RIORDAN We could live several lifetimes and never exhaust the power of our minds.
DENIS HACHEY Swords can’t solve every problem.
RICK RIORDAN Monsters are eternal,” she told him, trying to keep herself from sobbing. “We will remember you ...
RICK RIORDAN The power of love cannot be measured, it’s powers are limitless.
KISHAN S CHAUHAN I'm Nico di Angelo." - Nico di Angelo
RICK RIORDAN These all are attempts to protect the weak party against other political powers. They are afraid of ...
GEORGE ISHAQ The power to make the very ugly to become beautiful,is by getting used to seeing their faces.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to accomplish almost anything in life is by first getting used to the idea in your mind.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to become dominant in business is by making the consumer get used to your product.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to live long is by learning to develop a positive mental attitude about issues of life.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to know an ovulating lady is by observing how suddenly gay she has become.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to command everything to suddenly become cheap is by getting used to buying them.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to become a leader is by learning to have vision,integrity & control.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to have more money is by learning to spend less than you earn.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to live without almost anybody in life lies within you,just get used to their absence.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to overcome procastination is by learning to do things today.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to overcome dissappointment in life is by learning to attempt one more time.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to make a person to feel bigger than he currently is & then quickly get what you want from...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to live without a person for one hour can also be extented & magnified so that you can als...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to make no name or face sound or look strange is by getting used to calling or seeing them...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to tame a stubborn child is by learning to direct his aggresiveness into success in other ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to become a cassanova is by getting used to being embarassed.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers th...
BIBLE Bless their demented little hearts.
RICK RIORDAN All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that yo...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers ...
SHERI L. DEW Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same tim...
KENNETH EADE Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand u...
RICK RIORDAN Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt.
"You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth.
RICK RIORDAN The plain import of the clause is, that congress shall have all the incidental and instrumental powe...
JOSEPH STORY All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON To be or not to be that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They’d seen his deepest secrets. They knew who he was, what he was. But they didn’t seem to care...
RICK RIORDAN If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not b...
MAIMONIDES The power of all animals are known ,the power of nature is known , the power of God is also known bu...
KOWSALAPATHY Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding
ITALIAN PROVERB If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron w...
RICK RIORDAN It'll be dangerous," Nyssa warned him. "Hardship, monsters, terrible suffering. Possibly none of you...
RICK RIORDAN The power to defeat sexual temptations in life is by learning to transmute your sexual urges into ot...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power never to allow money change your character is by having strong determination never to allo...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power never to allow money corrupt your mind is by learning not to revere money above people.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to know what the future holds for us,is by finding what scientists are currently researchi...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to always arrive on schedule or before time,is by learning to be a servant of time.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to know if a relationship is on the precipice is by knowing how hard you try not to offend...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to know whether your spouse is enjoying sex with you or not is by learning to discern the ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The body power;The body never respect the personality wearing her ,for her sole mission in life is j...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to have the experience to master poverty is by first learning to serve it.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to activate your inactive sex life is by learning to use the magical tool called pornograp...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to have a functional imagination faculty,is by learning to activate it through constant re...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to never get bored of sex is by learning to become adventurous in the art.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to defeat sexual temptation in life is by learning to distance yourself from the seducer.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to become good in bed is by learning to defeat your sexual instinct.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to become a great politician in life is by learning to serve for only one term,so that the...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to get along well with people is by learning never to expect too much from them.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to defeat unwholesome anger is by learning to divert your anger from the person to the act...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to become a reader in life is by first getting used to reading a page per day.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to remain humble for life, is by understanding the fact that we are nothing but dust in it...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to miraculously make things happen in your life is by learning to throw in the towel & the...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to implement a drastic change in your life or business is by learning to introduce the cha...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to live without eating for 1hour can also be extended & magnified for you to live without ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to defeat laziness in life is by learning to get used to work.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to know that life is a temporal abode is by learning never to underate death.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to become the character you desire to be in life is by learning how to condition your thin...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to miraculously make things happen in your life,is by learning the art of throwing in the ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to make tomorrow flourish is by having absolute belief in today.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to stop your beneficiaries from quarreling over the content of your will when you are gone...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to overcome the thing you greatly fear is by learning never to leave the thing you fear al...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to be able to forecast how rich a person will be ,is by first measuring the size of his th...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to be able to purchase whatsoever you desire is by learning to always positively use the p...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to know those that don't believe in you nor your dreams,lies in those that repeatedly refu...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Never underestimate the power of thought; it is the greatest path to discovery.
IDOWU KOYENIKAN People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these br...
JONATHAN TURLEY Life is our master & we are his subject,if we pleaseth him not,he has the sole power to terminate ou...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris.
Percy: the ...
RICK RIORDAN There are too many of them." Reyna wondered bitterly how many times she'd said that in her demigod c...
RICK RIORDAN The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for the...
JONATHAN MAYHEW Like your zodiac sign? Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.
'No, stupid,' Leo said. I'm a Leo. You're a Per...
RICK RIORDAN Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fi...
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Ask your friends, Cupid said. Frank,...
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RICK RIORDAN I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights."

Now that we were safely down the mountain...
RICK RIORDAN Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leadi...
RICK RIORDAN The Council agrees," Zeus said. "Percy Jackson, you will have one gift from the gods."
I hesita...
RICK RIORDAN As for my brothers," Zeus said, "we are thankful"-he cleared his throat like the words were hard to ...
RICK RIORDAN It's just Annabeth mom jeez!
RICK RIORDAN Хей! - извика Гроувър. - Тя май припадна!
- Гррр! - обади...
RICK RIORDAN Той ме погледна тъжно, сякаш мислеше какви цветя да изб...
RICK RIORDAN Синдром на Дефицит на Вниманието (СДВ)
RICK RIORDAN You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together.
RICK RIORDAN then things got even stranger.
Mr. Brunner, who'd been out in front of the museum a minute befo...
RICK RIORDAN There are parties and then there are huge major blowout parties. And then there are Olympian parties...
RICK RIORDAN Apollo?” I guessed…
He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.”
...
RICK RIORDAN Percy smiled. He knew the stakes were high. He knew this day could go horribly wrong. But he also kn...
RICK RIORDAN Hazel squinted. "How far?"
"Just over the river and through the woods."
Percy raised an ey...
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