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"I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy."
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"In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping."
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"Faith and hope remove worry, anxiety, and fear. Human life becomes very painful and burdensome if a person has no one to trust and love. Then why should it bother an atheist, if a mother who just has lost her child, takes up a doll of baby Jesus or Krishna and pampers it like her own child, while in the process she actually succeeds in coping with her traumatic situation!"
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"I think I need a drink.''Almost everybody does only they don't know it."
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"Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us."
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"I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely."
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"Nature has endowed us with some measure of insanity to cope with the realities of daily life."
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"Humor was a good way to hide the pain."
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"Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience."
Creativity

"Down in the water, Octavian yelled, "Get me out of here! I'll kill you!"Tempting, Percy called down."
Conflict

"My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they're dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set."
Battle

"As for Percy, he held his magic ballpoint pen like he was trying to decide whether to bust out some sword moves or autograph Nike's chariot."
Decision

"God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude!Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!"
Humor

"She led the way. Eyeless sockets of the dead seemed to stare at them as they passed. "These are cool," Dan decided. "Maybe I could-""No, Dan," Amy said. "You can't collect human bones.""Awww."
Morality

"I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults."
Creativity

"I wanted to get angry, this guy pushed me so hard."
Emotion

"The dead aren't scary. They are just sad."
Death

"The main thing about ghosts " most of them have lost their voices. In Asphodel, millions of them wander around aimlessly, trying to remember who they were. You know why they end up like that? Because in life they never took a stand one way or another. They never spoke out, so they were never heard. Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it,' Nico said with a shrug, 'you're halfway to Asphodel already.' He hated when his own advice applied to himself."
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