It was even colder inside (the silo than outside) ... these guys were freezing.


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We were shooting well both inside and outside.
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The nickel spot, inside. It's the hardest position to play. It's harder than outside.
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Outside it was dark, but not as dark as it was inside of me.
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It's freezing. If I always had to stand outside to smoke I would understand, too.
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Keep making pretty music on the inside, even when you feel like you’re dying on the outside.
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We were helping so much inside we gave them some open looks outside.
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It's even more urgent than it was in these other hurricanes or tsunamis.
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I never freeze, because I am colder than the weather.
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Even though it's not below freezing, tender tomato plants aren't going to like it.
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Hotter in the gym than it was outside.
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You are little cold and little hungry; but someone else outside your room is freezing and starving.
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It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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The holy water was freezing.
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They get it done from the inside and the outside.
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You mean inside? Or outside?
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You can’t find outside what you don’t have inside.
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I showed him Riptide, and explained how it turned fr...
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I'm calm," Rachel insisted. "Every time I'm around you, some monsters attack us. What's to be nervou...
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Remind me again-why do you hate me so much?"

I don't hate you."

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

You'd probably ki...
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Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up.
"Y...
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Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked.

"It only works on wild animals....
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Percy: Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right?
Annabeth: Come back alive,...
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You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?"
"Not even a little bit." I showed him that I ...
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What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?"
"I don't know. B...
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The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They w...
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A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He...
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Percy (to Annabeth): If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick yo...
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Dreams like a podcast,
Downloading truth in my ears.
They tell me cool stuff."
"Apoll...
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Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderf...
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It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.
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What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vos...
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Rachel: You're a half-blood, too?
Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about?
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I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?"
"Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple."
"Bu...
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My name is Percy Jackson.
I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding stude...
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Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons...
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Hermes smiled. "I knew a boy once ... oh, younger than you by far. A mere baby, really."
Her...
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It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inv...
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Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper.
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I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mor...
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You’re not the only one,” he says through gritted teeth. “My twelve-year-old sister died in my...
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A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.
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Very slowly using two fingers, Annabeth drew her dagger. Instead of dropping it, she tossed it as fa...
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I said hello to the poodle.
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Nico, you can do this," Jason said. "It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter."

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Love is on every side, Cupid said. And no one's side. Don't ask what Love can do for you.<...
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Is this guy Love or Death?" Jason growled.

Ask your friends, Cupid said. Frank,...
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Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson...
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You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats th...
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Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.
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