“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?”

— Rick Riordan, book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

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