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"Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease."
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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."
"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!"
"I see you from afar-fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift."
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"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."
"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads."
"There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so."
"The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame"
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