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Cupid," Jason called, "where are you?"
'Where you least expect me,' Cupid answered. 'As love always is.


Rick Riordan

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RICK RIORDAN Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair.
RICK RIORDAN Is this guy Love or Death?" Jason growled.

Ask your friends, Cupid said. Frank,...
RICK RIORDAN Sometimes a Cupid plays hard to catch
As he always got new couples to match.
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Still hiding, Cupid said, smashing another skeleton to pieces. You do not have the strengt...
RICK RIORDAN Like Cupid,
your promises
were just misses.
TIMOTHY JOSHUA So now I get the scepter?" Jason asked.

Cupid laughed. Unfortunately, you could not wi...
RICK RIORDAN The story of Psyche finally made sense to him- why a mortal girl would be so afraid. Why would she r...
RICK RIORDAN Cupid and my Campaspe played / At cards for kisses, Cupid paid.
JOHN LYLY But you find out that he is Cupid. Then he falls in love with one of his hits.
KAREN SLOAN For you know that I myself am a labyrinth, where one easily gets lost.
CHARLES PERRAULT Love was the most savage monster of all.
RICK RIORDAN Oh, he's not like that," said Favonius.

Jason flinched. "You can read my mind?"

RICK RIORDAN O innocent victims of Cupid,
Remember this terse little verse:
To let a fool kiss you is stu...
E. Y. HARBURG In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell.
It fell upon ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Cupid, you worthless bastard, I summon you to human form! (Julian)
Gee, I can't imagine why he ...
SHERRILYN KENYON Love, well thou know'st no partnership allows, Cupid averse rejects divided vows.
ALEXANDER POPE And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nico, you can do this," Jason said. "It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter."

RICK RIORDAN Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson...
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RICK RIORDAN Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth."

"You were jealou...
RICK RIORDAN REFLECTIONS OF TRUTH

Where you find Truth
Is where you find your reflection
And...
SUZY KASSEM Yet marked O where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, ther...
OVID Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
OVID Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one, the fish will be found.
OLD SONG Please tell me your master isn't Aeolus."

"That airhead?" Favonius snorted. "No, of cours...
RICK RIORDAN Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, ther...
OVID Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
OVID There is no clock on Cupid’s arrows; he can fire an arrow dipped in the blood of the young at the ...
DAUGLAS DAUGLAS I pictured Cupid sitting in a crappy little bar, drunk and depressed, while he moaned to the bartend...
JENNIFER RARDIN Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad
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E. Y. HARBURG Poor Nico di Angelo. The god's voice was tinged with disappointment. Do you know what ...
RICK RIORDAN Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect there wil...
OVID Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, ther...
OVID Where were you
when
I undressed and told the tales of my day?
Where were you
w...
KAMAND KOJOURI Who am I, that you should love me?"
"You are My Queen," said Eugenides. She sat perfectly still...
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit, For if they coul...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there...
OVID Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, ther...
OVID to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder and Vulcan a rare carpenter?
WILLIAM SHAKESPERE I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.
SLASH COLEMAN Love cannot live where there is no trust.
EDITH HAMILTON O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace!
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where the...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI Your arrows may strike all things else, Apollo, but mine shall strike you.
THOMAS BULFINCH Maggie scoffed. "Denial will not save you when Cupid's arrow find its mark."
"If i see Cupid an...
KERRELYN SPARKS I also liked your 'What Cupid Does In His Free Time' story.
JACQUE ROLFES Where were you born?"
"On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered.
"No, no. In what state wer...
JOSEPH HELLER Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -A Mi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love lo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where ther...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where th...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Cupid may have wings, but we have to rely on more conventional methods.
DELORES KILLETTE You're pretty smug, Lord Ares, for a guy who runs from Cupid statues.
RICK RIORDAN Heaven is exactly where you are, hell is exactly where you are, now tell me exactly where you are.
VIKRANT PARSAI Yet but three come one more.
Two of both kinds make up four.
Ere she comes curst and sad.<...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time doesn't heal as much as it buries things in the undergrowth of your brain, where they lie in wa...
JONATHAN TROPPER Love is the answer
At least for most of the questions in my heart
Why are we here and wher...
JACK JOHNSON If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
DōGEN The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Whe...
RICHARD BACH Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You will not find love where you wish or where you hope.

...

She forced herse...
RICK RIORDAN Think long and hard about how you proceed, Nico di Angelo. You cannot lie to Cupid. If you let your ...
RICK RIORDAN Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I would have to break the ice with a warm smile that would melt her heart.
TAI Love is one soul, liquifying two solid chest-plates, to be soluble in its chemistries
IAN IJH HOWELL It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are
going.
BRIAN TRACY ...he asked, "Where are you today, right now?"
Eagerly, I started talking about myself. However...
DAN MILLMAN Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have broug...
JAMES LANE ALLEN Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you le...
PHYLLIS BOTTOME Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Home is not where you are born;
home is where all your attempts
to escape cease
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I sometimes go to a mythical place called "workplace", where the doable is always unpassable as poss...
WILL ADVISE And then his voice echoed through my head. Merit.
He silently called my name, even as h...
CHLOE NEILL Let us go where skins are rainbows
Enhanced by every hue.

Where genders are clouds KAMAND KOJOURI I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without c...
PABLO NERUDA Who was I to meddle in people’s love lives? Mine was a mess. My heart
wanted the one thing it...
JENN WINDROW I ask the impossible: love me forever.
Love me when all desire is gone.
Love me with the s...
ANA CASTILLO You can love me or hate me and disagree with me, but you sure as hell know where I stand.
GAVIN NEWSOM Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU You are never left out from the experience of love. You can always give and receive love right from ...
RENAE A. SAUTER Ugarte: You despise me, don't you?
Rick: If I gave you any thought I probably would.
JULIUS J. EPSTEIN Meet Tony. My first chest hair. I called him Tony as he’s Tony one I got,” Connor laughed.
...
MARK A. COOPER You blast me open and then
You stand back and watch
My feeble attempts
To deal wit...
KATE MCGAHAN You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involve...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s ...
J.M. BARRIE If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Thanks to Jos...
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RICK RIORDAN Erre es korakas, Blinky!" Dionysus cursed. "I will have your soul!
RICK RIORDAN In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame ...
RICK RIORDAN THAT'S IT!" Terminus cried. "That's AGAINST THE RULES!"
Polybotes frowned, obviously confused t...
RICK RIORDAN Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.
RICK RIORDAN Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.
RICK RIORDAN If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
RICK RIORDAN She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish.
RICK RIORDAN A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ...
RICK RIORDAN Gaea?” Leo shook his head. “Isn’t that Mother Nature? She’s supposed to have, like, flowers ...
RICK RIORDAN Humans see what they want to see.
RICK RIORDAN Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.
RICK RIORDAN Then she did something so unexpected Nico would later think he dreamed it. She walked up to Nico, wh...
RICK RIORDAN You will suffer, son of Hades!’
What else is new? Nico thought.
RICK RIORDAN This is so cool!" Nico said, jumping up and down in the driver's seat. "Is this really the sun? I th...
RICK RIORDAN Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea.
If I'd known what was coming, I would've called i...
RICK RIORDAN I had a crush on Percy," Nico spat. "That's the truth. That's the big secret.
RICK RIORDAN For a long time,’ Nico said, ‘I had a crush on you. I just wanted you to know.’ Percy looked a...
RICK RIORDAN He turned, registering a face with blond hair, and for a split second he thought it was Will Solace....
RICK RIORDAN Good. So you may be dense, but you’re not an idiot.’
‘How can you even talk to me like t...
RICK RIORDAN Nico," I said at last, "shouldn't you be sitting at the Hades table?"

He shrugged. "Techn...
RICK RIORDAN Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair.
RICK RIORDAN With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.
RICK RIORDAN Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can."
Grover cracked a smile....
RICK RIORDAN Because I know you, Percy Jackson. In many ways, you are impulsive, but when it comes to your friend...
RICK RIORDAN Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wro...
RICK RIORDAN What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apol...
RICK RIORDAN Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind...
RICK RIORDAN Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.
RICK RIORDAN I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue pla...
RICK RIORDAN Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand...
RICK RIORDAN Don't you ever feel like, what if the world really IS messed up? What if we COULD Do it all over aga...
RICK RIORDAN She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doin...
RICK RIORDAN The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.
RICK RIORDAN How did you die?"
"We er....drowned in a bathtub."
"All three of you?"
"It was a big ...
RICK RIORDAN Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between...
RICK RIORDAN Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs a...
RICK RIORDAN Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.
RICK RIORDAN I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster."

End of discussion.The Tita...
RICK RIORDAN We’ve arrived,” Leo announced. “Time to Split.”
Frank groaned. “Can we leave Valdez i...
RICK RIORDAN Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.
RICK RIORDAN Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy mountain cliff in Maine, Perc...
RICK RIORDAN You promised, Seaweed brain. We would not get separated! Ever again!
RICK RIORDAN Nico, I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest.
RICK RIORDAN Annabeth?” Percy said again. “You’re planning something. You’ve got that I’m-planning-s...
RICK RIORDAN