It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.

Aphrodite strikes again, huh? You're gonna be the best-dressed warrior in town, beauty queen.

Amos stopped before the entrance, which was the size of a garage door—a dark heavy square of timber with no visible handle or lock. “Carter after you.” “Um, how do I—” “How do you think?” Great another mystery. I was about to suggest we ram Amos’s head against it and see if that worked.

Laistry....I can't even say that. What would you call them in English?" "Canadians.

Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.

The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before.Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid.