Patterns repeat themselves in history

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.

There was nothing wrong with fire … as long as you didn’t stand too close. Something to keep in mind.

Great is bookishness and the charm of books.

I always take a less-is-more approach to my routine, and use products that create a sun-kissed glow that can transition from day to night.

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic, because I will not let my church-going friends pat me on the head.

My heart is bursting at the thought of Al-Mahdi coming to set up a universal government of peace.

What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional as Presbyterian deacons.

I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.