With great power comes a great need to take a nap.

You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together.

Hestia shook her head. "I am here because when all else fails, when all the other mighty gods have gone off to war, I am all that's left. Home. Hearth. I am the last Olympian

And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

Erre es korakas, Blinky!" Dionysus cursed. "I will have your soul!

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

Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.

I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.

We need a shroud. A shroud for the son of Hermes.

Afterlife exist in the unidentified substances.

Ever theatrical, Jackie also viewed the home as a grand set: a malleable, working stage on which to play out the daily sketches of life...

I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.

When you can't see yourself objectively, you won't see anyone else objectively, either.

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot.

When you are behind bars with no hope of release, you need to find strength wherever you can. Personally, I found strength in Michael Jackson.

Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot, or the heart of a wild beast, can believe in eternal punishment.

I've done all my tricks. I'm tired of myself.

I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.