What’s the best part of being in Hermes cabin? Connor: You are never lonely. I mean seriously, new kids are always coming in. So you always have someone to talk to. Travis: Or prank. Connor: Or pickpocket. One big happy family.

The store had a hand-painted sign the read: MOOSE PASS GAS. "That's just wrong," Frank said.

He could't have survied a hundred foot drop. I'm sorry Annabeth.

It is a costly thing, looking on the true face of Love.

Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse.

This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world.” “Michael Jackson lived here?” “No, dummy,” Carter said. “Elvis Presley.

My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after Norse mythology. She was also the first person to encourage me to submit stories for publication. The idea of writing a fantasy based on myths never left me, and many years later, this would lead me to write Percy Jackson.