I did not know one person who played with him or against him who didn't like him. The smile was contagious. He would be laughing, and everyone would be laughing.


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The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders ...
RICK BASS
Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.
RICK PERRY
I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side...
RICK ALLEN
If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost ...
RICK RENZI
Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ra...
RICK PERLSTEIN
Since I was a kid I've wanted to be in a Bond movie.
RICK YUNE
I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.
RICK PERLSTEIN
Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future g...
RICK PERRY
I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to ...
RICK YANCEY
I love that we are bringing the flavors of Frontera to Los Angeles. I think we can only add to the b...
RICK BAYLESS
There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But th...
RICK PERRY
Um," Grover said. "Percy?"
"Yeah?"
"I thought you'd want to know."
"Yeah?"
"Cerb...
RICK RIORDAN
We ought to be bragging about Florida!
RICK SCOTT
It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school.
RICK MERCER
Back when I was 16, when I should have been doing normal high school things, I availed myself of my ...
RICK PERLSTEIN
Oh, come on!’ Percy complained. ‘I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? That�...
RICK RIORDAN
You can keep watch, in case – you know, the lake decides to attack us or something." - Leo Valdez
RICK RIORDAN
I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
RICK MOODY
Maybe we should shut Wall Street down for 24 hours, see how everybody who blames Wall Street for eve...
RICK SANTELLI
He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.
RICK RIORDAN
Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally emba...
RICK RIORDAN
I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Wes...
RICK RIORDAN
Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
"He's the sun god," I said.
"That's not what I me...
RICK RIORDAN
I wanted to argue but I found I couldn't. Athena was pretty darn smart.
RICK RIORDAN
There is always a way for those clever enough to find it.
RICK RIORDAN
When Athena falls in love, it's purely intellectual. It's a meeting of minds. The purest kind of lov...
RICK RIORDAN
Headache!" Zeus bellowed. "Bad. bad headache!"
As if to prove his point, the lord of the univer...
RICK RIORDAN
your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty ...
RICK RIORDAN
Wisdom's daughter walks alone.
That didn't just mean without other people, Annabeth realized. I...
RICK RIORDAN
The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. ...
RICK RIORDAN
People usually asked her if she had a belly button. Of course she had a belly button. She couldn't e...
RICK RIORDAN
Athena stood in the middle of the road with her arms crossed and a look on her face that made me thi...
RICK RIORDAN
Athena called, "Annabeth Chase, my own daughter."
Annabeth squeezed my arm, then walked forward...
RICK RIORDAN
I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, ...
RICK RIORDAN
She studied me with concern. She touched the new streak of gray in my hair that matched hers exactly...
RICK RIORDAN
There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.
RICK RIORDAN
The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never...
RICK RIORDAN
Not knowing is half the fun," Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you ...
RICK RIORDAN
Annabeth gripped the hilt of her dagger. “A bounty on our heads . . . as if we didn’t attract en...
RICK RIORDAN
The cord, a familiar voice said. Remember your lifeline, dummy!
Suddenly there was a tug in my ...
RICK RIORDAN
You sneaked into my cabin?”
Annabeth rolled her eyes. “Percy, you’ll be seventeen in two ...
RICK RIORDAN
I learned a long time ago: Never bet against Annabeth.
RICK RIORDAN
Hoover Dam," Thalia said. "It's huge."
We stood at the river's edge, looking up at a curve of c...
RICK RIORDAN
And,” Annabeth continued, “it reminds me how long we’ve known each other. We were twelve RICK RIORDAN He had no idea where the stereotype of dumb giggly blondes came from. Ever since he'd met Annabeth a...
RICK RIORDAN
I could have killed you.”
“Or I could have killed you,” Percy said.
Jason shrugged....
RICK RIORDAN
I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? Yo...
RICK RIORDAN
Argh!" Thalia pushed me, and a shock went through my body that blew me backward ten feet into the wa...
RICK RIORDAN
This is Annabeth,” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people.
RICK RIORDAN
You drool when you sleep.
RICK RIORDAN
Hey, can I see that sword you were using?"
I showed him Riptide, and explained how it turned fr...
RICK RIORDAN
I'm calm," Rachel insisted. "Every time I'm around you, some monsters attack us. What's to be nervou...
RICK RIORDAN
Remind me again-why do you hate me so much?"

I don't hate you."

Could've foole...
RICK RIORDAN
Leo: Rainbows. Very macho.
Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the...
RICK RIORDAN
It's okay,” he said. “We're together.” He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive...
RICK RIORDAN
Monkey bar," Annabeth said. "I'm great at these." She leaped onto to the first rung and start swingi...
RICK RIORDAN
She raised an eyebrow. "You got something to say to me, Seaweed Brain?"

You'd probably ki...
RICK RIORDAN
Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up.
"Y...
RICK RIORDAN