As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.
You mean a bad heel?" I said. "Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense. " -Percy
Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.
The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.
Egyptians believe in the power of the sunrise. They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world.
It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.
Just because you don't see me doesn't mean I wasn't there
But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature. . . In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.