If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

Lacy had warned me about Drew the first day of school. Apparently the two of them had gone to some summer camp together––blah, blah, I didn't really listen to teh details––and Drew had been just as much a tyrant there. ~Sadie Kane, about Lacy and Drew of Aphrodite cabin.

She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doing the same thing. The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "'clean'" it, and suddenly you can't find anything?

Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty." -Percy

And if I was humming "Happy Birthday" and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life—well, that was nobody's business, was it?