simp and the city

I believe your exact words were "pics or it didn't happen" (though I admittedly wasn't the anon in that's ask)

So here it is, by printed and bound version of what has quickly become my favorite fanfiction - Salvage, by MuffinLance

Still waiting on the last chapter obviously, (Currently praying to a tiny child god) but once it's done, the book is only a few short steps away from being finished. I am loving the outcome and can't wait to finish this project!

Quote on back is from chapter 12: "When Ozai called him son, it was as different from how Hakoda said it as the crew's laughter was to the Fire Nation royal court's. As 'couldn't go back' was from 'wouldn't'."

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Disclaimer: I had never bound a book prior to this.

Step 1: Formatting and Printing

Once I had decided that I did indeed want to print and bind Salvage, I started by formatting what I came to call the “Master Text”. 

To make the master text, I made a word document and immediately went to File>Print>Page Setup.

When you do this, a menu will pop up, go to Multiple Pages, and select book fold. At the top of the menu, under Margins, you will also be able to change the margins. in the picture below you can see my preferred settings. Be sure to also change the Gutter (It will automatically be set to 1″ on all sides. IMPORTANT: change Margin settings after selecting bookfold, as when you select bookfold they will be flipped)

(my margins are .8" top and bottom, .5" inside and outside, and .25" gutter)

Once this is all done, go back to your document and start working - it will be a little hard to notice, but your page will be changed, and what you see on each page will be how it should look once it’s printed.

At this point, I basically just copied and pasted the entirety of the fic into the Master Text, formatted the chapter titles to look pretty, numbered the pages, and added a Table of Contents on the first page. I usually make my font size 9 so that the thickness of the book is as thin as possible to save on printing, while still being very readable. (smallest readable font size is 5, by the way. In case anyone was wondering.) I also like my font to be Times New Roman, since it’s universal.

This is when things get tricky, so bear with me. 

I would imagine that someone with their own printer could set their “Sheets per booklet” setting to 4 (shown above as set to 16 but that is [probably] not correct) and just go ahead and print the whole thing. and be done with it.

However, in my case, I wanted to be able to control how much I printed (since the last chapter is not out yet, and I was paying for how many pages I was printing) AND I was using my school printer system, which went through google docs which took all my stuff and change the font and the spacing, and overall was just a disaster.

SO for anyone who would like to control how many pages you print at a time (which I have actually found super useful regardless) the following steps and information are for you.

First thing you need to know is that your pages should be grouped into “Signatures”, which are made up of 4 sheets of paper, printed front and back, which will contain 16 of your book pages. Below is an illustration demonstrating this.

So what I have done is made a folder for each Signature, and in each folder is 4 documents - one for each sheet in the Signature. Each document has two pages - formatted Landscape, with the same margins as the Master Text. In layout, make it so that each page has two columns. Each column will end up being a page in your book.

In the footer, you can manually type each page number and use the space bar to put them in opposite corners of the document. Be sure to mark either “Different odd and even pages” or “Different first page” so that the two sides of the sheet can have the numbers for all the pages. 

IMPORTANT: be sure to format the gutter between the two columns. If you’re following my margin and formatting, the gutter between the columns will be 1.5″. With custom margins, the formula is:

(side margins x 2) + (gutter x2) = column gutter

I label my Signatures A-Z for ease of finding and following along. Here is a chart breaking down how the first 5 signatures should pan out. The different colors dictate that they are on the same sheet, the different tones of those colors dictate that they are on the same side of the sheet. If you have trouble figuring it out past that point please feel free to message me and I can help you.

IMPORTANT: Your smallest and largest number on each sheet should always be on the same side, with the smallest number being on the right side, and the largest being on the left. On the other side of the sheet they should be in numerical order. (As shown in the above chart.) In other words, each sheet will have two sets of consecutive numbers - they should be diagonal from one another.

Once you have all that figured out use your Master Text to copy the page you need and paste it in the correct column. Do this for all of your pages.

(Optionally, this is also where you can do some fun formatting, such as adding Headers or designs to your pages, as these will be the final copy)

IMPORTANT: If you are adding a table of contents - that will be on your page 1. (I also like to make this the title page.)

When you have every sheet for every signature done - you are ready to print. Print each sheet double sided, on the short edge. When I was printing I printed 1 signature at a time, made sure everything looked right, folded each sheet individually, and stacked the four sheets to make each signature.

FUN FACT: My Salvage print is a projected 18 Signatures.

Step 2: The Fun Part

Here is where I step back and let a professional do the talking. Here is how to make what is called a Text Block:

Here is a more in depth video on the stitching style used in the above video:

Feel free to check out more of this lady’s videos. She recommends a lot of products you can use and has a lot of videos on different stitching styles, though I’ve found this on to be my favorite.

For the “two thick sheets” of paper, she mentioned towards the end of the video (the black ones she glued to the front and back), I’m using construction paper. In fact, I just went out and bought a pack of construction paper, of which I will use almost exclusively for everything else in my Salvage printing and binding process.

She also uses a number of tools in these video, such as an awl and bone folder (whatever the heck that is). Instead of an awl, I used a pushpin, and instead of a bone folder I used my fingers, or my ruler.

And finally, for the cover I have this video:

In this video she uses something called bookcloth, which you can buy or make pretty cheaply, but I had construction paper, so I decided to use the contraction paper, which works just as well, and is even cheaper.

The problem with my construction paper, was that the kind I bought wasn’t big enough to cover the entire length of the cover - which is how I came up with the two toned cover idea, with the spine being different from the side flaps. (I also really liked the way it looked

To get this effect I cut out my chip board for the sides (which you could also get fairly inexpensively..... or you can by a cheap binder and cut out the board from within, like I did) measured out as instructed in the video, and wrapped them both in the color of paper that I wanted. I used the purple dries-clear glue stick Elmer’s glue sells, and it worked so good, but you have to work quickly because it dries fast. I also recommend having it dry pressed underneath a Flat Heavy Object TM, like a text book or something, so that it dries flat. 

TIP: Use a glue stick when gluing your material to your covers, but use liquid glue when gluing the signatures together. If you want more information on what kind of glue to use, check out this other video. But also keep in mind she is mostly talking about gluing “perfect bound text blocks” which means they aren’t sewn together at all. (therefore Elmer’s craft bond should work fine for gluing signatures)

When I finally got an idea of how thick the spine was going to be (I recommend having a finished text, so that you can just trace the spine like she did in the video, but I’m impatient) I cut that out, as well as the spine color construction paper. I knew I wanted an inch of overlay onto the sides of the book, so I did the following math:

(side cover overlay (1 in) x 2) + 1/2 in + spine width = width of black spine paper.

After that I decorated the cover as I liked, highly recommend metallic sharpies and pens, and practicing on scrap paper.

Finally, I will (eventually) glue the text block to the cover, as shown in the hard cover video.

Just tiny turtles

No tricks, just torts

Sarah: *I’m* the Goblin Queen, bitches - you go wave your fans somewhere else.

Like…

-He kept stumbling on the stairs in the ballroom scene. Jennifer keeps laughing at him because, oh my fuck, you’re David Bowie, aged 40something, Rock God Supreme, stupidly beautiful, actually trained in all this shit….and my adolescent ass remembers these stairs are here, but you don’t?!?!???????/

- The script originally called for Jareth and Sarah to kiss, but David Bowie straight up refused because Jennifer Connely was a minor and he was a grown-ass adult.

- Henson wanted a famous musician to play the Goblin King and had debated casting Michael Jackson, until David Bowie came over and…hopped up onto the table, and, with a wicked gleam in his eye, pulled a bone flute out of his pocket, hopped up onto the table, and, crouching thereon, played it at him and Henson was like “that is the Goblin King right there”

- Jennifer was apparently an absolute dream to work with and they didn’t realise how dangerous some of the stunts she acted were until they saw an actual teenager, say, going down the shaft of hands

- David Bowie was TERRIFIED OF HEIGHTS.  During the Diamond Dogs tour in the 1970s, he got stuck on an elevating chair on stage, and later, in the 80s, during Glass Spider, he had an elevated prop fucking PRECIPITATELY DESCEND under him.  Nonetheless, he did a lot of the Escher Room stuff himself - not all of it, some of it is a stunt guy, but damn, for a dude with acrophobia, doing ANY of it is impressive.

(She went by her first, rather than middle, name back then)

They are, and forever will be, THE TEAM™

Then about a week into their journey like

Legolas: *in Elvish, for approximately the 20th time* ugh fucking hobbits, so annoying

Frodo: *also in Elvish, deadpan* yeah we’re the worst

Legolas:

Legolas: ugh fucking hobbits

Merry: Frodo what’d he say

Frodo: I’m not sure he speaks a weird dialect but I think he’s insulting us. I should tell him I can understand Elvish

Merry: I mean you could do that but consider

Merry: you can only tell him ONCE

Legolas: umm well your accent is horrible

Aragorn: *hollering from a distance* HIS ACCENT IS BETTER THAN YOURS LEGOLAS YOU SILVAN HICK

Legolas: y’alld’ve’ff’ve

Frodo: Good morrow to thee, frend. I hope we twain shalle bee moste excellente companions.

Legolas: Wots that mate? ‘Ere, you avin’ a giggle? Fookin’ ‘obbits, I sware.

english would probably have changed less since Chaucer’s time, if a lot of our cultural leaders from the thirteenth century were still alive and running things.

they’ve had like. seven generations since the sun happened, max. frodo’s books are old to him, but outside any very old poetry copied down exactly, the dialect represented in them isn’t likely to be older than the Second Age, wherein Aragorn’s foster-father Elrond started out as a very young adult and grew into himself, and Legolas’ father was born.

so like, three to six thousand years old, maybe, which is probably a drop in the bucket of Elvish history judging by all the ethnic differentiation that had time to develop before Ungoliant came along, even if we can’t really tell because there weren’t years to count, before the Trees were destroyed.

plus a lot of Bilbo’s materials were probably directly from Elrond, whose library dates largely from the Third Age, probably, because he didn’t establish Imladris until after the Last Alliance. and Elrond isn’t the type to intentionally help Bilbo learn the wrong dialect and sound sillier than can be helped, even if everyone was humoring him more than a little.

so depending on how much of a role Thranduil took in his upbringing (and Oropher in his), Legolas may have some weird stilted old-fashioned speaking tics in his Sindarin that reflect a more purely Doriathrin dialect rather than the Doriathrin-influenced Western Sindarin that became the most widely spoken Sindarin long before he was born, or he might have a School Voice from having been taught how to Speak Proper and then lapse into really obscure colloquial Avari dialect when he’s being casual. or both!

considering legolas’ moderately complicated political position, i expect he can code-switch.

…it’s also fairly likely considering the linguistic politics involved that Legolas is reasonably articulate in Sindarin, though with some level of accent, but knows approximately zero Quenya outside of loanwords into Sindarin, and even those he mostly didn’t learn as a kid.

which would be extra hilarious when he and gimli fetch up in Valinor in his little homemade skiff, if the first elves he meets have never been to Middle Earth and they’re just standing there on the beach reduced to miming about what is the short beard person, and who are you, and why.

Pippin, confused: Is he not speaking Elvish?

Frodo, sarcastically: I dunno, are you speaking Hobbit?

Boromir, who has been lowkey pissed-off at the Hobbits’ weird dialect this whole time: That’s what it sounds like to me.

Merry, who actually knows some shit about Hobbit background: We are actually speaking multiple variants of the Shire dialect of Westron, you ignorant fuck.

site for when you can only remember part of a word/its definition 

site that gives you words that rhyme with a word

I always found it a bit odd. Hilarious, but it raised too many questions. When did Steve make these? Why did Steve make these? How did he manage to be so cheesy and overly sincere knowing how much crap he would get from the other Avengers for it?

Well, today my sister told me her headcanon. Picture the scene. Steve leans on the back of a chair, as above. Peter immediately launches into ‘So, you got detention…’. Cap blinks. Peter awkwardly tries to explain. It turns out Cap has no idea what videos he means, and neither do any of the other Avengers.

So they get in touch with the company who made them, and they swear blind that it was really the real Captain America, and that it all his idea. That he came in and said how much he wanted to help the youth of today.And the Avengers all lose it because someone is running around doing an unbelievably good impression of Captain America, they could have destroyed his reputation, they could have infiltrated the Avengers; and instead all they are apparently using it for is to make silly, embarrassing videos.

It’s completely baffling. Who could possibly be behind it all?

A mystery.

After Izuku moves into the dorms, All Might makes a point of coming to visit Inko with updates on her son. He knows how worried she is and how lonely she must be without Izuku so he tries his best to be good company and put her mind at ease.

For the most part this happens while Izuku is physically at UA, so he witnesses none of it. One weekend when Izuku goes home he invites Ochako over for dinner. Meanwhile Inko has done the same with All Might, who’s now entirely comfortable and casual in the Midoriya household, helping cook and chatting with Inko. Ochako watches this unfold like, “Uh Deku…Is All Might like…your dad now?” And Izuku is completely shocked like “Haha what no?? He’s just my mentor.”

Meanwhole All Might an Inko are clearly flirting.

Then Ochako leaves for the night and Izuku lapses into existential crisis mode because “…..shit……she totally has a point….he’s so casual here what is he now?” And Izuku picks up on all these small changes in the house just “Why is there an extra futon here? Whose toothbrush is this? Where did all these large shirts come from? There’s so much All Might merch around and it’s not my All Might merch who bought these?” And All Might pops his head in like, “Oh yeah, I get my own All Might merch for free.” And Izuku’s just….screaming inside.

Break rolls around and Izuku packs a suitcase to head home for two weeks. Walks in the front door and All Might is standing in the kitchen with a chef’s hat on baking. Izuku wanders in in a complete daze, All Might acting like this is totally normal as he pulls out bowls and spatulas while Izuku starts muttering, “Why are you…. here all the time…??? how do you remember where all the kitchen tools are when I don’t…???” and he glances at the partially-frosted cake on the counter, “Why are you making a cake that says ‘Welcome home son’????” And All Might starts blushing furiously like, “Well I was finishing this for your MOTHER.”

School resumes and all the Class 1-A kids are walking to class. They pass by the school grounds entrance and suddenly Inko is there running toward the main building. Bakugou notices first like, “Hey Deku, isn’t that your fucking mom over there?” Izuku turns, startled, and intercepts her thinking it’s got to have something to do with him. She just kinda blinks at him when he asks what’s wrong and says, “Uh actually… Toshinori forgot his lesson plans at home… Could you give this to him?“ Ochako, Iida, and Bakugou who are all listening internally go “Who tf is Toshinori…?” Until they all walk into class and Izuku sheepishly hands the papers off to All Might and the rest of the kids just “!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

During class break Iida and Ochako look at each other like "ALL MIGHT WAS IZUKU’S DAD” They turn to izuku with gaping mouths like ‘ALL ALONG???’ Izuku flails a bit. 'I DIDNT - HES NOT - THIS!…” “HOW LONG HAVE THEY BEEN DATING” Izuku, still sputtering, “THEY AREN’T??? DATING????” Iida nods like he understands and says “Well of course not Izuku. Why would they go on dates when they’re already married?’ Ochako answers “Not true my parents still go out sometimes.” Izuku “WHY AR E WE DEBATING THIS”

They just keep having a conversation without Izuku. Izuku instead passes out against the wall muttering. Iida and Ochako finally notice. “Should we call his parent?” “Which one?”

They’ve got a class trip coming up and after lunch Aizawa hands out permission slips. Izuku’s is already signed with an enormous ALL MIGHT signature.

so aizawa, knowing full well that he’s going to regret his decision soon enough, finally decides to give his kids his cell phone number so they can just text him with any questions they might have instead of having to wait until they see him in class the next day.

and no matter how much he threatens them with expulsion, it doesn’t stop the kids from taking full advantage of the new power they have been given.

kaminari and kirishima absolutely send aizawa memes when he knows full well they should be in one of their other classes

mina calls him at 3am once to ask if he has any good brownie recipes, because she can’t sleep, and she wants some midnight snacks, but satou is asleep and she can’t get him to wake up no matter what, and sure she could have googled this shit, but she sucks at baking and needs aizawa-sensei to explain all the technical terms to her

izuku is up late one night, studying for a test, and he has the news on in the background because it’s easier to focus that way. there’s live footage of a villain confrontation that Eraserhead manages to resolve without any civilian injuries, and Izuku sends him a text congratulating him. he doesn’t expect aizawa to respond right away, because he’s currently being interviewed by a reporter, but aizawa has a special notification sound for his students’ numbers, so this man deadass walks away from the reporter mid-sentence to call izuku and lecture him for being awake so late

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” - The Lightning Thief

“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.” -The Lightning Thief

“Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.” -The Lightning Thief

“The real world is where the monsters are.” -The Lightning Thief

“Where’s the glory in repeating what others have done?” -The Lightning Thief

“Suspecting and knowing are not the same.” -The Lightning Thief

“Names have power.” -The Lightning Thief

“So few people did good in their lives. It was depressing.” -The Lightning Thief

“The dead aren’t scary. They are just sad.” -The Lightning Thief

“the best people have the rottenest luck” -The Lightning Thief

“If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?” -The Lightning Thief

“It was like looking at the ocean: some days, you could tell what mood it was in. Most days, though, it was unreadable, mysterious.” -The Lightning Thiel

“You may choose to believe or not, but the fact is that immortal means immortal. Can you imagine that for a moment, never dying? Never fading? Existing, just as you are, for all time?” -The Lightning Thief

“Does truth have a moral?” -The Sea Of Monsters

“Don’t you ever feel like, what if the world really IS messed up? What if we COULD Do it all over again from scratch? No more war. Nobody homeless. No more summer reading homework. “ -The Sea Of Monsters

“Knowledge isn’t always good for you.” -The Sea Of Monsters

“This is the trouble with all happiness -all of it is built on top of something men want.” -The Sea Of Monsters

“there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn’t matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don’t appreciate your genius” -The Sea Of Monsters

“But you, Percy - you are part god, part human. You live in both worlds. You can be harmed by both, and you can affect both. That’s what makes heroes so special. You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal.” -The Sea Of Monsters

“There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.” -The Titan’s Curse

“ So I took her hand, and I don’t know what everybody else heard, but to me it sounded like a slow dance: a little sad, but maybe a little hopeful, too.” - The Titan’s Curse

“He might as well have stabbed me with a rusty dagger.It would’ve hurt less than reminding me of my promise.” - The Titan’s Curse

“The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation,“ she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.” - The Titan’s Curse

"You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear through the search.” - The Titan’s Curse

“Be careful of love. It’ll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.” -The Battle Of Labyrinth

“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed.” -The Battle Of Labyrinth

“Getting something and having the wits to use it…those are two different things.” -The Battle Of Labyrinth

“But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.” -The Battle Of Labyrinth

“You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you. “-The Battle Of Labyrinth

“Don’t judge someone until you’ve stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh?” -The Battle Of Labyrinth

“I was glad to be with her, but it also kind of hurt, and it hurt when I wasn’t with her, too.” -The Battle Of Labyrinth

“Remake the wild, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world. You cannot wait for anyone else, even a god, to do that for you.” -The Battle Of Labyrinth

“Genius does not excuse evil.” -The Battle Of Labyrinth

"But… I’m just… I mean, I’m just me.” “That is enough,” -The Battle Of Labyrinth

“A good artist must be good at many things.” -The Battle Of Labyrinth

“They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.” -The Battle Of Labyrinth

“Maybe that’s why monsters fade. Maybe it’s not about what the mortals believe. Maybe it’s because you give up on yourself.” -The Battle Of Labyrinth

“It’s hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.” -The Last Olympian

“Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.” -The Lat Olympian

“No hero is above fear .”-The Last Olympian

"I am here because when all else fails, when all the other mighty gods have gone off to war, I am all that’s left. Home. Hearth. I am the last Olympian” -The Last Olympian

“Because Hope survives best at the Hearth.” -The Last Olympian

“Patterns repeat themselves in history” -The Last Olympian

“You must forge your own path for it to mean anything.” -The Lost Hero

“But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself — avoid trying to be something you’re not. For a goddess, that’s especially hard. We can change so easily. “-The Lost Hero

“Don’t stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.” -The Lost Hero

“My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.” -The Lost Hero

“Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused. “-The Lost Hero

“Humor was a good way to hide the pain.” -The Lost Hero

“He was the class clown, the court jester, because he’d learn early that if you cracked jokes and pretended you weren’t scared, you usually didn’t get beat up. Even the baddest gangster kids would tolerate you, keep you around for laughs.”-The Lost Hero

   “Maybe people with special gifts show up when bad things are happening because that’s when they’re needed most.” -The Lost Hero

“Life is only precious because it ends, kid.” -The Son Of Neptune

“ What mattered was listening. You didn’t need to say you were sorry. The only thing that helped was moving on—moving forward.” -The Son Of Neptune

“A real man’s weapon is his mind.” -The Son Of Neptune

“Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine.” -The Son Of Neptune

“Nobody welcomes a war - not if they’re smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It’s inevitable.” -The Son Of Neptune

“Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate” -The Son Of Neptune

“He warned me the greediest wishes cause the greatest sorrows.” -The Son Of Neptune

"As long as we’re together,” -The Mark Of Athena

“Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.” -The Mark Of Athena

“I’m nobody’s sidekick” -The Mark Of Athena

“She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.” -The Mark Of Athena

“Keep it simple.” -The Mark Of Athena

“But she wondered why beautiful things had to be wrapped up with evil history. Or was it the other way around? Maybe the evil history made it necessary to build beautiful things, to mask the darker aspects.” -The Mark Of Athena

“True success requires sacrifice.” -The Mark Of Athena

“Swords can’t solve every problem.” -The Mark Of Athena

“Many of the best traps are simple. You just have to think about it, and hope your victim doesn’t.” -The Mark Of Athena

“Gods forbid if she ever broke up with him. She’d never be able to visit the sea again without remembering her broken heart.”-The Mark Of Athena

“ Tell the sun and stars hello for me.” -The House Of Hades

“ But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.” -The House Of Hades

“I figure the world is basically a machine. I don’t know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or the capital-G god or whatever. But it chugs along the way it’s supposed to most of the time. Sure, little pieces break off and stuff goes haywire once in a while, but mostly… things happen for a reason.” -The House Of Hades

“Yeah, well,” Nico said, “not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.” -The House Of Hades

“Oh, I wouldn’t say Love always makes you happy. Sometimes it makes you incredibly sad.” -The House Of Hades

“Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.” -The House Of Hades

“ I am the god of love. I am never fair.” -The House Of Hades

“Love was the most savage monster of all.” -The House Of Hades

“Ask your friends, Cupid said. Frank, Hazel, and Percy met my counterpart, Thanatos. We are not so different. Except Death is sometimes kinder.” -The House Of Hades

“Bob says hello”-The House Of Hades

“Love is on every side, and no one’s side. Don’t ask what Love can do for you.” -The House Of Hades

“He didn’t think much of fates and prophecies, but he did believe in one thing: Annabeth and he were supposed to be together.” -The House Of Hades

“ I’m not choosing one of your paths. I’m making my own.” -The House Of Hades

“Must’ve been hard on your mom,” Frank said. “I guess we’ll do anything for someone we love.” -The House Of Hades

“ Mortals did superhuman feats in the name of love all the time. “-The House Of Hades

“It is a costly thing, looking on the true face of Love.” -The House Of Hades

“It’s natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not…” -The House Of Hades

“The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.” -The House Of Hades

“She had to face the fact that she couldn’t protect everyone she loved. She couldn’t solve every problem.” -The House Of Hades

“Well, maybe you got the smoke, buddy, but I’ve got the fire.” -The House Of Hades

“I guess once in a while we all need a wake-up call from somebody who loves us.” -The House Of Hades

“No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.” -The Blood Of Olympus

“ You should have to make someone`s heart whole; that was a much better test.”   -The Blood Of Olympus

“Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with, even embraced.” -The Blood Of Olympus

“You can’t choose your parentage. But you can choose your legacy.” -The Blood Of Olympus

“I don’t define myself by the boys who may or may not like me” -The Blood Of Olympus

“Our desires reveal us. They show us for who we really are.” -The Blood Of Olympus

‘Getting a second life is one thing. Making it a better life, that’s the trick.’ -The Blood Of Olympus

“Fear can’t be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They’re like love. They’re almost identical emotions. That’s why Ares and Aphrodite like each other. Their twin sons – Fear and Panic – were spawned from both war and love.” -The Blood Of Olympus

“A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.” -The Blood Of Olympus

“Keep moving. Don’t get bogged down. Don’t think about the bad stuff. Smile and joke even when you don’t feel like it. Especially when you don’t feel like it.” -The Blood Of Olympus

“Your voice is your identity.” -The Blood Of Olympus

“Dreams and death were old friends of his. He knew how to navigate their dark borderland.” -The Blood Of Olympus

“The most difficult kind of strength – restraint.” -The Blood Of Olympus

“You will not find love where you wish or where you hope.” -The Blood Of Olympus

“All aboard for one last trip.” -The Blood Of Olympus

“ The darkness is my birthright.” -The Blood Of Olympus

“Complaining of unfairness is like assigning blame, Percy Jackson. It does no one any good.” -The Blood Of Olympus

“It’s stupid what keeps people apart.” -The Blood Of Olympus

“Nico had once read a story from Plato, who claimed that in the ancient times, all humans had been a combination of male and female. Each person had two heads, four arms, four legs. Supposedly, these combo-humans had been so powerful they made the gods uneasy, so Zeus split them in half—man and woman. Ever since, humans had felt incomplete. They spent their lives searching for their other halves.” -The Blood Of Olympus

“But too much love is poison, especially when that love is not returned.” -The Blood Of Olympus