They had a silent staring contest, but Percy didn’t back down. When he and Annabeth started dating, his mother had drummed it into his head: It’s good manners to walk your date to the door. If that was true, it had to be good manners to walk her to the start of her epic solo death quest.
Rick RiordanNot all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.
Rick RiordanAll of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.
Rick RiordanAnother guy barked orders to a small army of brooms, mops, and buckets that were scuttling around, cleaning up the city. "Like that cartoon," Sadie said. "Where Mickey Mouse tries to do magic and the brooms keep splitting and toting water." "'The Sorcerer's Apprentice,'" Zia said. "You do know that was based on an Egyptian story, don't you?
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