Whasthat!" "Um ... those are the toilets.

Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable.

That's what being a demigod was all about, not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature.

I got the feeling Poseidon really didn't know what to think of me. He didn't know whether he was happy to have me as a son or not. In a strange way, I was glad that Poseidon was so distant. If he'd tried to apologize, or told me he love me, or even smiled. it would've felt fake. Like human dad, making some lame excuse for not being around. I could live with that. After all, I wasn't sure about him yet, either.

You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together.

As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe.

Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!