“There’s my baby!” I cried, quite carried away. “There’s my Poochiekins!” Ammit ran at me and leaped into my arms, nuzzling me with his rough snout. “My lord Osiris!” Disturber lost the bottom of his scroll again, which unraveled around his legs. “This is an outrage!” “Sadie,” Dad said firmly, “please do not refer to the Devourer of Souls as Poochiekins.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“Not really. My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make that happen yourself.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“A king leads his people like a shepherd leads his flock.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“Sadie,” Dad said firmly, “please do not refer to the Devourer of Souls as Poochiekins.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“I was afraid to try it, but I thought: Horus? Well, it’s about time, the other voice said. Hello, Carter. ‘Oh, no,’ I said, panic rising in my chest. ‘No, no, no. Somebody get a can opener. I’ve got a god stuck in my head.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“Little sisters,” Carter said. “If they talked too much, the Egyptians threw them to the crocodiles.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“We wandered the halls of an infinite magic nursing home, led by a hippo nurse with a torch. Really, just an ordinary night for the Kanes.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“Chaos is impatient. It’s random. And above all it’s selfish. It tears down everything just for the sake of change, feeding on itself in constant hunger. But Chaos can also be appealing. It tempts you to believe that nothing matters except what you want.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“[Yeah, thanks a lot, Sadie. You get to tell the part about the Land of the Dead. I get to describe Interstate 10 through Texas.]”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“Zia looked appalled. “Setne? As in the Setne? Does Carter realize—?” “Yep.” “And Thoth suggested this?” “Yep.” “And you’re actually going along with it?” “Yep.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“We’re not going to die,” I promised my mates. “Emma, hold my staff.” “Your—Oh, right.” She took the staff gingerly as if I’d handed her a rocket launcher, which I suppose it could’ve been with the proper spell. “Liz,” I ordered, “watch the baboon.” “Watching the baboon,” she said. “Rather hard to miss the baboon.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“Shut up,” Thoth and I said at the same time. He looked at me with surprise. “So, Sadie…you are trying to stay in control. It won’t last. You may be blood of the pharaohs, but Isis is a deceptive, power-hungry—” “I can contain her,” I said,”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“And you, Sarah Jacobi”—he pointed to a woman with white robes and spiky black hair—“you were sent to Antarctica for causing the tsunami in the Indian Ocean.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“Pyramids Road?’ Sadie said. ‘Obvious, much?’ ‘Maybe he couldn’t find a place on Stupid Evil Magician Street,’ I suggested.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“Right…so when Apophis breaks out, he’ll try to destroy Ma’at, the order of the universe. He’ll swallow the sun, plunge the earth into eternal darkness, and otherwise make us have a very bad day.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same,” Dad said. “Fairness means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children’s.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“Knowledge of any value can’t be given. It must be sought and earned.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“She’s an old man,” he muttered. “The girl I like is a buff old man with a voice deeper than mine.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“I didn’t like being a leader. I always had to appear confident for the sake of the others, even when I wasn’t.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“She was beautiful when she threatened to kill me.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“(The first scrying bowl Walt had made actually did ignite, but that’s another story.)”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“When the griffin moved, they fluttered so fast, they blurred and buzzed like the wings of the world’s largest, most vicious hummingbird.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“Oh, no,” I said, panic rising in my chest. “No, no, no. Somebody get a can opener. I’ve got a god stuck in my head.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“Impossible, Horus said. No one bests Horus.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
“She’s almost as annoying as you, I told Horus. Impossible, Horus said. No one bests Horus.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Kane Chronicles
Rick Riordan
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“The house is made up of the spirits of our ancestors. Did you think they would lie idly by while we were under attack?"
'Cuz, yeah, didn't everybody's ancestors rise up and destroy enemies.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Safe Harbor
“Quantum physicists discovered that physical atoms are made up of vortices of energy that are constantly spinning and vibrating; each atom is like a wobbly spinning top that radiates energy. Because each atom has its own specific energy signature (wobble), assemblies of atoms (molecules) collectively radiate their own identifying energy patterns. So every material structure in the universe, including you and me, radiates a unique energy signature. If it were theoretically possible to observe the composition of an actual atom with a microscope, what would we see? Imagine a swirling dust devil cutting across the desert’s floor. Now remove the sand and dirt from the funnel cloud. What you have left is an invisible, tornado-like vortex. A number of infinitesimally small, dust devil–like energy vortices called quarks and photons collectively make up the structure of the atom. From far away, the atom would likely appear as a blurry sphere. As its structure came nearer to focus, the atom would become less clear and less distinct. As the surface of the atom drew near, it would disappear. You would see nothing. In fact, as you focused through the entire structure of the atom, all you would observe is a physical void. The atom has no physical structure—the emperor has no clothes! Remember the atomic models you studied in school, the ones with marbles and ball bearings going around like the solar system? Let’s put that picture beside the “physical” structure of the atom discovered by quantum physicists. No, there has not been a printing mistake; atoms are made out of invisible energy not tangible matter! So in our world, material substance (matter) appears out of thin air. Kind of weird, when you think about it. Here you are holding this physical book in your hands. Yet if you were to focus on the book’s material substance with an atomic microscope, you would see that you are holding nothing. As it turns out, we undergraduate biology majors were right about one thing—the quantum universe is mind-bending. Let’s look more closely at the “now you see it, now you don’t” nature of quantum physics. Matter can simultaneously be defined as a solid (particle) and as an immaterial force field (wave). When scientists study the physical properties of atoms, such as mass and weight, they look and act like physical matter. However, when the same atoms are described in terms of voltage potentials and wavelengths, they exhibit the qualities and properties of energy (waves). (Hackermüller, et al, 2003; Chapman, et al, 1995; Pool 1995) The fact that energy and matter are one and the same is precisely what Einstein recognized when he concluded that E = mc2. Simply stated, this equation reveals that energy (E) = matter (m, mass) multiplied by the speed of light squared (c2). Einstein revealed that we do not live in a universe with discrete, physical objects separated by dead space. The Universe is one indivisible, dynamic whole in which energy and matter are so deeply entangled it is impossible to consider them as independent elements.”
― Bruce H. Lipton, quote from The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles
“The answer is simple: You are you, the person who will live with the consequences of what you do. No one else can be responsible, because no one else will experience the consequences of your actions as you will.”
― quote from How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty
“A bartender by trade, a loud mouth by choice, and a necromancer by chance, she’s managed to keep her nasty habit of seeing dead people hidden from those around her—until now.”
― J.A. Saare, quote from Dead, Undead, or Somewhere in Between
“Those were the days when dreams were sweet and life was sweeter still.”
― Lisa Schroeder, quote from Chasing Brooklyn
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