My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.

I prayed the monsters would give up. Or that perhaps Philip of Macedonia would climb back to the terrace (do crocodiles climb?) and renew the fight.

Scrawny? Baby, I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot.

You dropped this," he said, totally poker-faced.

Calm down, Horus said. "Don't tell me to calm down!" Bast frowned. "I didn't." "Talking to him!" I pointed at my forehead.

I plucked a ruby off the nearest plant and threw it at Hades.

I wrote for 10 years before I even started the 'Percy Jackson' series.