I'm just a kid, Chiron, I said miserably. What good is one lousy hero …

Rick Riordan
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I'm just a kid, Chiron, I said miserably. What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos? Chiron managed a smile. 'What good is one lousy hero'? Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said something like that to me once, just before he single-handedly changed the course of your Civil War. ✨ Rick Riordan (2007). The Sea of Monsters, Disney-Hyperion
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