Rick Riordan

So now I get the scepter?' Jason.

Can’t this thing go any faster?” Thalia demanded.Zoe glared at her. “I cannot control traffic.”You both sound like my mother,” I said.Shut up!” they both said in union.

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

A strange breeze rustled through the clearing, temporarily overpowering the stink of trash and murk. It brought the smell of berries and wildflowers and clean rainwater, things that might've once been in these woods. Suddenly I was nostalgic for something I'd never knew.

When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience.

Nico wasn't sure whether to kick himself or Will Solace. If he hadn’t been so distracted bickering with the son of Apollo, he would never have allowed the enemy to get so close.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

You speak horse?' Hazel asked.'Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing,' Percy said. 'Uh, I mean a Neptune thing.'Then you and Arion should get along fine,' Hazel said. 'He's a son of Neptune too.'Percy turned pale. 'Excuse me?

It almost made me long for the flying pig.--Percy.

I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping along behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.Of course, the Mist helped. People probably couldn't see Mrs. O'Leary, or maybe they thought she was a large,loud,very friendly truck.

That wasn’t my future I destroyed,’ she assured herself. ‘I make my own future.

Young man, names are powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason.