"A king may rule the kingdom but the queen still moves the board."
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"I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it."
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"Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times."
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"Inside a wool jacket the man had made a pocket for the treasure and from time to time he would jiggle the pocket, just to make sure that it was still there. And when on the train he rode to work he would jiggle it there also, but he would disguise his jiggling of the treasure on the train by devising a distraction. For example, the man would pretend to be profoundly interested in something outside the train, such as the little girl who seemed to be jumping high up on a trampoline, just high enough so that she could spy the man on the train, and in this way he really did become quite interested in what occurred outside the train, although he would still jiggle the treasure, if only out of habit. Also on the train he'd do a crossword puzzle and check his watch by rolling up his sleeve; when he did so he almost fell asleep. Antoine often felt his life to be more tedious with this treasure, because in order not to be overly noticed he had deemed it wise to fall into as much a routine as possible and do everything as casually as possible, and so, as a consequence, despite the fact that he hated his wife and daughter, he didn't leave them, he came home to them every night and he ate the creamed chicken that his wife would prepare for him, he would accept the large, fleshy hand that would push him around while he sat around in his house in an attempt to read or watch the weather, he took out the trash, he got up on time every morning and took a quick, cold shower, he shaved, he accepted the cold eggs and orange juice and coffee, he picked the newspaper off the patio and took it inside with him to read her the top headlines, and of course he went to the job."
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"[Hades] returned his attention to the playlist while I eased the car back on the road. His fingers flipped deftly over the screen. 'Orpheus... Dusk... Orpheus... Dusk...do you have anything on here that doesn't make people want to jump off a cliff' ... 'I'm driving. When you learn to drive something more modern than a horse and buggy, we can listen to your music.''I can drive!''Did they even have cars the last time you can to the surface' I teased.'Yes.''Not counting the minute and a half you spent rescuing me last year'Hades fell silent, and I laughed. 'I didn't think so."
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"There's my baby!" I cried, quite carried away, "There's my poochiekins!"..."Sadie," My dad said firmly, "Please do not refer to the devourer of souls as 'poochiekins'."
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"Helios thought he looked pretty hot, and he had an annoying habit of calling the sun his "chick magnet."
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"Behold, my children!" she said. "The instrument of my revenge. I will call it a scythe!"The Titans muttered among themselves: What is that for? Why is it curved? How do you spell scythe?"
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"Why are you singing?” Daniel asked. “You’re just lying in the dirt and singing. That’s weird. I thought you were supposed to be some kind of scary monster."
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"Some legends say that Hera's breast milk sprayed across the sky and created the Milky Way. I don't know. That seems like a whole lot of solar systems from just one squirt"
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"I sort of fell."Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet?"
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"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
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"Have I cheated death again? Hades must be allergic to me."
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"Excercise is nothing more than a depressing reminder that one is not a god."
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"Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood."
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"Instantly, the pair fell to groping one other as if each had puff the magic dragon at a rock concert in Woodstock."
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"This coming from the god who zinged Guinevere and Lancelot while King Arthur was away slaying dragons."
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"Pegasus's dad was poseidon, the god of the sea, and his mom was Medusa, and evil Gorgon who had fangs and lizard skin and living snakes for hair. And you thought your family was weird."
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"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
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"Even Cronus, the Titan who literally had his kids for breakfast, would find these facts hard to swallow."
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