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"If they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away."
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"After the satyrs filed in to dinner, the Hermes cabin brought up the rear. They were always the biggest cabin. Last summer it had been led by Luke, the guy who fought with Thalia and Annabeth on top of Half-Blood Hill. For a while, before Poseidon had claimed me, I'd lodged in the Hermes cabin. Luke had befriended me...and then he'd tried to kill me."
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"Brightlord Adolin insisted. So long as you were in here, he wouldn't leave. We tried to stop him, but the man's a prince. We can't storming make him do anything, not even leave. He locked himself away in the cell and we just had to live with it."
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"Loyalty is what you focus on and won't give up."
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"Now, Max, I have told you many times that you are my publisher, and permanently, as far as one can fling about the word in this too mutable world....The idea of leaving you has never for one single moment entered my head."
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"Your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend you would sacrifice the world."
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"Love and loyalty run deeper than blood."
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"My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it."
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"And loyalty is a valued commodity. It can be sold . . . not bought, but sold."
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"The old man in the beard he felt convinced was wrong. He was too busy saving his own soul. Wasn't it better to take part even in the crimes of people you loved, if it was necessary hate as they did, and if that were the end of everything suffer damnation with them rather than be saved alone?"
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"If they were there for you when you had nothing, they are the ones worth having now. If they only notice you because of what you have gained, are they worth having at all?"
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"Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are."
Justice

"It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion."
Philosophy

"Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city."
Attitude

"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."
Society

"You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?"
Literature

"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."
Wisdom

"I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it."
Creativity

"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was."
Nature

"I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about."
Society

"The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book."
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