“If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.”

“To write a novel, you need an iron butt.”

“Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”

“The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.”

“The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if y...”

“If I had feelings, I probably wouldnt have even survived.”

“This was about more than semantics; it represented a dangerous shift in perspective.Rio was not at war, I pointed out; and even if it were, wars have rules.”

“Rules are for people with the luxury of time.”

“Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.”

“Everyone thinks you've been kidnapped," he said. "We've been scouring the ship. When Coach Hedge finds out- oh, gods, you've been here all night?""Frank!" Annabeth's ears were as red as strawberrie...”

“I looked at him like a stranger, someone Id never seen before, and he looked at me like Id been lost to him for a thousand years and finally found.”

“When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.”