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- I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.
- It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have to believe in yourself and…
- It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.
- Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.
- It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff…
- In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For…
- My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how…
- Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.
- Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.
- What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?" "I don't know. But I just know that I'll…
- Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can." Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?" Zoe blinked.…
- Whats up, Seaweed Brain?
- Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves…
- After the satyrs filed in to dinner, the Hermes cabin brought up the rear. They were always the biggest cabin. Last summer it had been…
- Mythologically speaking, if there's anything I hate worse than trios of old ladies, it's bulls. Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on top of Half-Blood…
- Percy (to Annabeth): If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick you. Silena: Awww . .…
- I can't get through the year without getting kicked out or blowing something up.
- The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as…
- With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.
- The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their…
- Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come…
- You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you. -…
- God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude! Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will…
- Looking up in the sky, I saw the stars were brighter now. They made a pattern I had never noticed before- a gleaming constellation that…
- Daddy will explain. Come, he is blowing up monsters.
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