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"To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them."
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"I'll be back with the sandwiches, she said. "But I had some leftover seven-layer dip."Yum. Percy dug in with a tortilla chip. "She's kinda famous for this, guys.Sally ruffled his hair. "There's guacamole, sour cream, refried beans, salsa-"Seven layers? I looked up in wonder. "You knew seven is my sacred number? You invented this for me?Sally wiped her hands on her apron. "Well, actually, I can't take credit-"You are too modest! I tried some of the dip. It tasted almost as good as ambrosia nachos. "You will have immortal fame for this, Sally Jackson!"
"Priceless gifts:The gift of love. The gift of parent. The gift of husbandThe gift of wifeThe gift of childrenThe gift of prayer. The gift of family. The gift of relatives. The gift of friends. The gift of in-laws. The gift of books."
"If you are ungrateful for one blessing, you will not be grateful for two. If you are ungrateful for two blessings, you will not be grateful for three. If you are grateful for one blessing, you will be grateful for innumerable."
"People who get offended by your not saying 'Thank you!' - after they've paid you a compliment were merely desperate to be thanked."
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"He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ..."
"Vidal had his exuberant and stately tower in the most elegant and elevated part of Pedralbes, surrounded by hills, trees, and fairy-tale skies. I would have my sinister tower rising above the oldest, darkest streets of the city, surrounded by the miasmas and the shadows of that necropolis which poets and murderers had once called the "Rose of Fire."
"He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in a library - hardly the kind of man any girl your age dreams of ..."
"The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I'm struck dead by lightning, and with good reason."
"Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist. And the more unlikely, the better. It's difficult to hate an idea. It's much easier to hate someone with a recognizable face whom we can blame for everything that makes us feel uncomfortable. It doesn't have to be an individual character. It could be a nation, a race, a group anything."
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