I tried to smile like I wasn't about to die.

Seriously, who curses you with their dying breath and says, I hope your eye twitches!

On the bright side," Percy said, "both Jason and I outrank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to shut up.

Coach Hedge yelled,“Thar she blows! Kansas, ahoy!” “Holy Hephaestus,” Leo muttered. “He really needs to work on his shipspeak.

I try to craft books that are fun, that are sort of subversively educational so kids learn but they don't really feel like they're being lectured to, and I want kids to always finish one of my books and think, "That was great, where's the next one?"

June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?"

For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across--hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.