That's the way cultural change works in America: the rest of us discard a prejudice that the Right still clings to; in the fullness of time, the Right comes around, too, deploying clever rationalizations to forget they ever bore the prejudice in the first place.


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Not knowing is half the fun," Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you ...
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Annabeth gripped the hilt of her dagger. “A bounty on our heads . . . as if we didn’t attract en...
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The cord, a familiar voice said. Remember your lifeline, dummy!
Suddenly there was a tug in my ...
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You sneaked into my cabin?”
Annabeth rolled her eyes. “Percy, you’ll be seventeen in two ...
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I learned a long time ago: Never bet against Annabeth.
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Hoover Dam," Thalia said. "It's huge."
We stood at the river's edge, looking up at a curve of c...
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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...
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I could have killed you.”
“Or I could have killed you,” Percy said.
Jason shrugged....
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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...
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Argh!" Thalia pushed me, and a shock went through my body that blew me backward ten feet into the wa...
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This is Annabeth,” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people.
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You drool when you sleep.
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Hey, can I see that sword you were using?"
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.
"Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole." RICK RIORDAN
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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