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percy jackson and the battle of the labyrinth

webbed in choices between past and future

a tale by rick riordan


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You're in charge now, my dear. All the decisions are on your shoulders. That's what you wanted, isn't it?

We know you, Annabeth. We know what you wrestle with every day. We know your indecision. You will have to make your choice sooner or later.

Getting something and having the wits to use it... those are two different things.
Even immortality has limits. Sometimes... sometimes monsters get forgotten and they lose their will to stay immortal.

You must listen to me.

Holding grudges is dangerous for a child of Hades. It is our fatal flaw. You have to forgive. You have to promise me this...

Good-bye, Nico. I love you. Remember what I said.

Don't decide yet. Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

It isn't easy being a brilliant inventor. Always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

He tried to do a good deed. And everything in his life went bad because of it. Was that fair? I don't know if Daedalus will help you, lad, but don't judge someone until you've stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh?

Tell them of my passing. Because they must stop waiting for me to save them. I cannot. The only salvation you must make yourself. Each of you must take up my calling.

Be strong. You have found me. And now you must release me. You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you.

You are the strongest and bravest. Your heart is true. You have believed in me more than anyone has, which is why you must bring the message, and why you must be the first to release me...

The spirit of the wild must pass to all of you now. You must tell each one you meet: if you would find Pan, take up Pan's spirit. Remake the world, 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.

Remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword...

Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.

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