Where are you taking us?" Nico said. "You should be honored, my boy. You will have the opportunity to join a great army! Just like that silly game you play with cards and dolls." "They're not dolls! They're figurines! And you can take your great army and—

And please God, grant me the wisdom to remember that I am writing for children, not golden stickers.

I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons.

We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.

but I felt as if I’d just been Photoshopped out of my own book cover. And if there was one thing I wasn’t used to, it was being ignored

I’d been to the British museum before. In fact I’ve been in more museums than I like to admit—it makes me sound like a total geek. [That’s Sadie in the background, yelling I am a total geek. Thanks, Sis.]

I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if I were on the verge of death-plankton maybe." -Percy Jackson