As punishment, Zeus has turned Apollo into a mortal teenager named Lester Papadopoulos, complete with acne and flab. Apollo has been cast out of heaven by his father, Zeus, who blames Apollo for helping facilitate a war between Greek and Roman demigods, the powerful offspring of Gods and mortals. We hope you’ll join us.The story opens with the book’s first-person narrator and protagonist Apollo, the Olympian God of the sun, prophecies, archery, music, and healing, falling into a garbage dump in an alley in Manhattan, New York. That we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters we read books cover-to-cover but Typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. World conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous Submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing toįounded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people Interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, andĬhoose the ones that are most thought-provoking. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. ― Kaui Hart Hemmings, quote from The DescendantsīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, His second wife had recently left him for someone who understood that a man didn’t do volunteer work.” I started off by saying that Joanie would get drunk and pretend I was someone else and do this neat thing with her tongue. We were instructed to trade reasons, abstract or specific, why we stayed with each other.

Once he tried to show us exercises he’d been doing in session with his girlfriend.

Barry is a man of the couch, a believer in weekly therapy, affirmations, and pulse points. Joanie and I were urged by her brother, Barry, to subject ourselves to counseling as a decent couple would.

I promise to let you watch that stupid news show about celebrities, since you’re so disenchanted with your own life. I will tolerate you in sickness and ignore you in health. At weddings we roll our eyes at the burgeoning love around us, the vows that we know will morph into new kinds of promises: I vow not to kiss you when you’re trying to read. The day she went into a coma, I heard her telling her friend Shelley that I was useless, that I leave my socks hanging on every doorknob in the house. It was as though we had the seven-year itch the day we met. “We don’t treat each other very well, I suppose.

The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan