Most problems look worse than they are. nothing is unfixable.

Aphrodite strikes again, huh? You're gonna be the best-dressed warrior in town, beauty queen.

I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.

I keep forgetting about your amnesia. Heh. Forgetting about amnesia. That's funny.

Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine.

I try to craft books that are fun, that are sort of subversively educational so kids learn but they don't really feel like they're being lectured to, and I want kids to always finish one of my books and think, "That was great, where's the next one?"

I'd missed Annabeth probably more than I wanted to admit.