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

lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!

Thoth's beak! You are impossibley stubborn." "Yeah, it's a gift.

We are servants of Ma’at—order and justice. We don’t kill our enemies for things they might do in the future.

Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!" He slung his M16 onto his back and pulled out a hand grenade. There were many screaming Romans. Then the hand grenade morphed into a ballpoint pen, and Mars began to write. Frank looked at Percy with wide eyes. He mouthed: Can your sword do grenade form? Percy mouthed back, No. Shut up.

My name is Carter Kane. I'm fourteen and my home is a suitcase.

Carter pulled out several lengths of brown twine, a small ebony cat statue, and a thick roll of paper. No, not paper. Papyrus. I remember Dad explaining how the Egyptians made it from a river plant because they never invented paper. The stuff was so thick and rough, it made me wonder if the poor Egyptians had had to use toilet papyrus. If so, no wonder they walked sideways.