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“Dreams like a podcast,Downloading truth in my ears.They tell me cool stuff.""Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad.He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognit...”
“He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically.Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. He grinned at us, waiting for applause. "That last line was four syllables. Arte...”
“Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad.”
“He turned the crank handles, hoping the thing wouldnt explode in his face. A few clear tones rang out-metallic yet warm. Leo manipulated the levers and gears. He recognized the song that sprang for...”
“The the glow become brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey.A boy in the crowd gasped. 'She's a communist!'A girl who'd been sitting at ...”
“It's almost as if Kennedy grabbed a decade out of the 21st century," Cernan said, "and spliced it into the 1960s." That helps to explain why, as I wrote in 1993 in the preface of this book, we were...”
“Strike, with hand of fire, O weird musician, thy harp strung with Apollo's golden hair; fill the vast cathedral aisles with symphonies sweet and dim, deft toucher of the organ keys; blow, bugler, b...”
“Your art I gaped at the field of white. There was a lovely portrait of meright there.I get offended whenever art is damaged, especially if that art features me.”
“When you can inspire a muse, you've got it going on.”
“He remembered Apollo, smiling and tanned and completely cool in his shades. Thalia had said, Hes hot. Hes the sun god, Percy replied. Thats not what I meant. Why was Nico thinking about that now? T...”
“He seemed to be staring at the chain hanging from the ceiling fan. Seconds later, he confirmed this by reaching out and tugging the chain. Light clicked on.He tugged the chain again.Light went off....”
“Apollo watched me closely, intently. No.My eyes narrowed. No to what?Im not sending you after them. Not yet, he said, surprising me into silencea rarity. I have another task for you. You need to le...”
“Ever since my famous battle with Python, I've had a phobia of scaly reptilian creatures. (Especially if you include my stepmother, Hera. BOOM!)”
“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”
“What we strive to restore and re-animate will never come from the promises of the middle class politicians, but will come instead from the spirit of the last Delphic prophecy, which foresaw that, O...”
“Whatever the reason we first mustered the _Apollo_ program, however mired it was in Cold War nationalism and the instruments of death, the inescapable recognition of the unity and fragility of the ...”
“Oh, why had the Labyrinth brought me here?As soon as I thought this, I chided myself: Of course it would bring me where I least wanted to be. Austin had been wrong about the maze. It was still evil...”
“Your sarcasm and general assholeness are not necessary, Apollo remarked casually.I grinned at him. I dont think assholeness is a word.It is if I say it is. Apollo drew in a deep breath, a sure sign...”
“I vote, I challenge Bathymaasy and we shoot arrows at you dearest brother." ArtemisSet and Bathymaas laughed.Apollo, not so much.”
“Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with myths can unify a culture. The forces of imagination and the Apollonia...”
