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"When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror."
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"You're not actually falling for him, are you?" he asks her one day, on one of the rare occasions he can get her alone."I'll pretend you didn't just ask that," she tells him in disgust. But Connor has reasons to wonder."On that first night here, he offered you his blanket, and you accepted it," he points out."Only because I knew it would make him cold.""And when he offers you his food, you take it.""Because it means he goes hungry."It's coolly logical. Connor finds it amazing that she can put her emotions aside and be as calculating as Roland, beating him at his own game. Another reason for Connor to admire her."
"Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease."
"Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot." "He's the sun god," I said."That's not what I meant."
"I'm not one to let such a striking man pass without looking my fill."
"I haven't seen angels, but I am sure they are not as beautiful as you are."
"No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment."
"He was generally aware that he had been blessed in her beauty; even in her usual homespun, knee-deep in mud from her garden, or stained and fierce with the blood of her calling, the curve of her bones spoke to his own marrow, and those whisky eyes could make him drunk with a glance. Besides, the mad collieshangie of her hair made him laugh."
"I'm gonna be percy Jackson when I grow up," she told Hazel solemnly.Hazel Smiled and ruffled her hair. "That's a good thing to be, Julia.""Although," Frank said. "Frank Zhang would be good too."
"Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
"...would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!"
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