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"Anybody have any money?Frank checked his pockets. "Three denarii from Camp Jupiter. Five dollars Canadian.Hedge patted his gym shorts and pulled out what he found. "Three quarters, two dimes, a rubber band and-score! A piece of celery.He started munching on the celery, eyeing the change and the rubber band like they might be next."
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"Convert your time into useful assets."
"You must learn to see everything around yourself as a resources, your opportunities, and turn them into your weapons to get them working in your favor, in order to achieve your goal."
"You have everything already inside you necessary for the true response to any challenge you will meet. Usually, it's just a question of assembling some elements in a way that you didn't think to do before (which brings us to intuition)."
"Prideep pointed to the flames of paraffin lamps as they came alive in the distance and cackled in awe at the experience. I was to discover that making tasty soup with one carrot, ten peas and a little dishwater, was his greatest skill. One wondered what the man would be capable of creating with a blender and a non-stick frying-pan."
"If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent."
"A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art."
"We hand the meat over to Greasy Sae in the kitchen. She likes District 13 well enough, even though she thinks the cooks are somewhat lacking in imagination. But a woman who came up with a palatable wild dog and rhubarb stew is bound to feel as if her hands are tied here."
"Poverty is the mother of invention."
"The wealth God has given to everyman is the wealth of TIME."
"You must learn to see everything around yourself as your resources, your opportunities and turn them into your weapons so that everything works in your favor and helps to achieve your goal."
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"You know how teachers tell you the magic word is 'please'? That's not true. The magic word is 'puke'. It will get you out of class faster than anything else."
"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!"
"A steely look of anger flared in my mother's eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own."
"Reyna sent me to get Percy," Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?""Yeah," Percy said. "He slaughtered my panda."
"Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough.The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse."
"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!"
"My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love."
"Maybe that's why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn't so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his head.Wow...when he started having thoughts like that, he knew he'd been spending too much time with Annabeth."
"Too bad Jason wasn't a metal automaton. At least then Leo would have some idea of how to help his best friend. But with humans, Leo felt helpless. They broke way too easily."
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