On the bright side," Percy said, "both Jason and I outrank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to shut up.

I thought maybe he was seeing another tree. - Juniper

Wouldn't that put a twist in your toga?

I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art.

Right," she said, "We're going to the Land of the Dead and I shouldn't think negative.

I named my camel Katrina. She was a natural disaster. She slobbered everywhere and seemed to think the purple streak in my hair was some kind of exotic fruit. She was obsessed with trying to eat my head. I named Walt's camel Hindenburg. He was almost as large as a zeppelin and definitely as full of gas.

I racked my brain trying to remember the names of all of Nut’s five children. Bit difficult without my brother, the human Wikipedia, around to keep track of such trivia for me.