Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
Can you surf really well, then?” I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. “Jeez, Nico,” I said. “I’ve never really tried.” He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn’t answer that one.) If Annabeth’s mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn’t Annabeth know better than…
A friend said to me, Hey you need to grow a pair. Grow a pair, Bro. It’s when someone calls you weak, but they associate it with a lack of testicles. Which is weird, because testicles are the most sensitive things in the world. If you suddenly just grew a pair, you’d be a lot more vulnerable. If you want to be tough, you should…
Animals are my friends…and I don’t eat my friends.
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.
Don’t Panic.
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles…
It means ‘Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234’.
DON’T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.
Let us find the dam snack bar,” Zoe said. “We should eat while we can.” Grover cracked a smile. “The dam snack bar?” Zoe blinked. “Yes. What is funny?” “Nothing,” Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. “I could use some dam french fries.” Even Thalia smiled at that. “And I need to use the dam restroom.” … I started cracking up, and Thalia…
If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.
Say ‘provoking’ again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.
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