I prefer to be the noisiest thing in my environment thank you very much.

You'd think he'd ran out off rocks," I muttered

Leo,” Hazel gasped, “I can’t—my arms—” “Hazel,” he said. “Do you trust me?” “No!” “Me neither,” Leo admitted.

Annabeth recognized something else in her face, too - in the hard set of her mouth and the deliberate way she raised her chin like she was ready to accept any challenge. Reyna was forcing a look of courage, while holding back a mixture of hopefulness and worry and fear that she couldn't show in public. Annabeth knew that expression. She saw it every time she looked in a mirror.

Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn’t realize that “test” is normally a bad thing.

Seven half-bloods shall answer the call To storm or fire the world must fall An oath to keep with a final breath and foes bear arms to the doors of death

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.