One basketball to rule them all.
First, you start carrying a man satchel. Next thing you know, you’re running around in a bathrobe and pink bunny slippers, chasing chickens with a weed whacker.
He had a note excusing him from PE for the rest of his life because he had some kind of muscular disease in his legs. He walked funny, like every step hurt him, but don’t let that fool you. You should’ve seen him run when it was enchilada day in the cafeteria.
Maybe people with special gifts show up when bad things are happening because that’s when they’re needed most.
He was the class clown, the court jester, because he’d learn early that if you cracked jokes and pretended you weren’t scared, you usually didn’t get beat up. Even the baddest gangster kids would tolerate you, keep you around for laughs. Plus, humor was a good way to hide the pain.
Most people call it The Book of the Dead,” he told me. “Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they could have directions through the Duat to the Land of the Dead. It’s like an Idiot’s Guide to the Afterlife.
Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.
Nico drank from the chalice, then offered it to Jason. “You asked me about trust, and taking a risk? Well, here you go, son of Jupiter. How much do you trust me?” Frank wasn’t sure what Nico was talking about, but Jason didn’t hesitate. He took the cup and drank.
He didn’t think much of fates and prophecies, but he did believe in one thing: Annabeth and he were supposed to be together.
Monsters,′ her dad said, a tear tracing his cheek. ‘I live in a world of monsters.
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.
We only came close to dying six or seven times which I thought was pretty good. A minute later Annabeth hit a slippery patch of moss and her foot slipped. Fortunately she found something else to put it against. Unfortunately that something was my face.
You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns sour in the end. But if you take the hard path – ah, that’s how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something.
Leo felt trapped. He’d once been stuck in a cave on top of Pikes Peak, surrounded by a pack of werewolves. Another time he’d been stuck in an abandoned factory with a family of evil Cyclopes. But this – standing in an open clearing with a dozen pretty girls – was much worse.
Sadie,” he said forlornly, “when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children’s.
Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding. -Hestia.
Come on,” I said. “I’ve got some questions for Thoth. And then I’m going to punch him in the beak.
Out my left, I saw baboon bum, out my right, my long-lost uncle Amos. Naturally, I decided to focus on the right.
The Cyclopes growled, “I don’t see very well since the last hero poked my eye out, but you’re... NO... LADY... CYCLOPES!
I didn’t know baboons could drive recreational vehicles, but Khufu did okay. When I woke up around dawn, he was navigating through the early morning rush hour in Houston, baring his fangs and barking a lot, and none of the other drivers seemed to notice anything out of the ordinary.