#son

Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it. ↗

— John O'Callaghan

#believe #bucket-list #do-it #do-something #faith

I just have a hard time with small talk. My friend Jocelyn says I'm too quiet. But I'm really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don't like to talk first. What if the other person doesn't want to be bothered? ↗

— Lauren Barnholdt

#people #personality #introvert

Fourteen preteen girls, a tableful of werewolves—there were certain monstrous similarities. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#werewolves

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. ↗

— Tom Bodett

#difference #given #lesson #life #school

I gotta say"—Apollo broke the silence—"these kids did okay." He cleared his throat and began to recite: "Heroes win laurels—" Um, yes, first class," Hermes interrupted, like he was anxious to avoid Apollo's poetry. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#hermes #percy-jackson #poetry-quotes

It's useless to lecture a human. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #stubborn #percy-jackson

Aretmis gripped her bow. “Let us pray I am wrong.” Can goddesses pray? ↗

— Rick Riordan

#goddess #goddesses #gods #percy-jackson #percy-jackson

Where's the glory in repeating what others have done? ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson

Suspecting and knowing are not the same. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#suspecting #percy-jackson

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so. ↗

— Mark Twain

#life