Your destiny grows clearer, Jason Grace. When the choice comes again- storm or fire- remember me. And do not despair.
Grover and Nico came back from their walk, and Grover helped me fix up my wounded arm. “It’s green!” Nico said with delight.
Even the gods couldn’t devise a fates so twisted.
Percy pushed on his side furiously and the crack closed. His eyes blazed with anger. She hoped he wasn’t mad at her, but if he was she couldn’t blame him. If it keeps him going, she thought, then let him be angry.
The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.
That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.
I saw ‘The 39 Clues’ as a potential vehicle for doing some education in a fun way – to take some of these amazing stories from history, dust them off and make them alive.
Writing is like a sport. If you don’t practice, you don’t get any better.
We wandered the halls of an infinite magic nursing home, led by a hippo nurse with a torch. Really, just an ordinary night for the Kanes.
Stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!
You can’t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway.
I don’t define myself by the boys who may or may not like me.
No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.
Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It has to be dealt with, even embraced.
Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that makes the reader wonder what he or she would do in the protagonist’s place.
It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population.
We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.
I stick closely to the structure of the myths. I may have some fun with the mythology by changing the environment to modern-day, but the structure of the myths, the monsters, the relationships of the gods – none of that is made up.
The images from the book you make in your head are always going to be the best images.
And please God, grant me the wisdom to remember that I am writing for children, not golden stickers.