Akmon squealed with delight. “I knew you were as smart as Hercules! I will call you Black Bottom, the Sequel!

It isn’t easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed. -Hephaestus

All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.

The way Leo figured it, he spent more time crashing than he did flying. If there was a rewards card for frequent crashers, he'd be, like, double platinum level.

Athena always, always has a plan.

I can see hope inside it." Rachel ran her fingers over the ceramic designs. "So fragile.

No!" Leo yelled. "Uhhh," Nico groaned from the floor. "Piper!" Jason cried. "Monkey!" Frank yelled. "Not monkeys," Hazel grumbled. "I think those are dwarfs." "Stealing my stuff!" Leo yelled, and ran for the stairs.