Daughter of the Deep
Rick Riordan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The impossible is merely the possible for which we don't yet know the science”
“The best science fiction can shape how humans see their own future.”
“My dear, dying is nothing to be embarrassed about. It happens to everyone.”
“I suppose I should get this out of the way. Harding-Pencroft is a five-year high school. We’re divided into four houses, based on the results of our aptitude tests. We call the academy HP for short. And, yes, we’ve heard all the Harry Potter jokes. Thanks anyway.”
“I hold up two fingers. 'How many fingers?' He squints. 'Twenty-five?' 'Yeah, you'll be fine.”
“Atlantis was just a theme park that went terribly wrong.”
“Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction. —Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”
“don’t know what Land Institute’s school motto is, but I want it to be This is why we can’t have nice things.”
“Perhaps it started when, at the age of ten, I picked up a starfish by one of its arms…and soon found myself holding a single wiggling appendage. At the time, I didn’t know that starfish arms could regenerate. I believed I was a murderer. I fell to my knees and bellowed with horror. (CURSE YE, FORMIDABLE MIGHT! SUCH INNOCENCE…DESTROYED! DOES THIS MEAN I CAN PERMANENTLY SKIP GYM?)”
“Nothing happens. Then, suddenly...still nothing happens. Five more minutes pass. More nothing. The minutes turn into an hour. Funny how that happens when you put sixty of them together.”
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