The dead are hard to look at. Their faces shimmer. They all look slightly angry or confused. they will come up to you and speak, but their voices sound like chatter, like bats twittering. Once they...
people saw what they wanted to see. They didn't need the Mist to warp their perceptions.
That's great. Except for the fact that it's completely unimportant.
you have to flaunt the weird, my friends.
A giant vulture with a girl hanging from its feet tends to attract attention.
The telkine growled and muttered as he tapped on his keyboard. Maybe he was messaging his friends on uglyface.com
You know, Magnus…sometimes it's best not to look as far as you're able to look, or to listen to everything you're able to hear.
Wonderful, Annabeth thought. Her own mother, the most levelheaded Olympian, was reduced to a raving, vicious scatterbrain in a subway station. And, of all the gods who might help them, the only ones...
Green grass breaks through snow,Artemis pleads for my help,I am so cool.
I was flying right toward him {the pig} at the speed of demigod-smashing.
The more you know, the more you try to change them, and that can be disastrous.
Mrs. O' Leary is my pet. I couldn't let you stick a sword in her rump, now, could I? That might've scared her.
P.S. You'll have to meet with Dan's principal when you get back. He got in trouble for doing ninja moves in class. Don't worry. This happens all the time.
We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness.
My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.
He looked at me sadly, as if he thought what flowers to choose at my funeral.
On a basketball court, five players were in the middle of an intense game. They wore assortment of jerseys from different American teams, and they all seemed keen to win-grunting and snarling at each...
He raised an eyebrow. You claim not to know me? Of course I'm Thoth. Also called Djehuti. Also called--I {Sadie} stifled a laugh. Ja-hooty?Thoth looked offended. In Ancient Egyptian, it's a perfectly...
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Bloated! he cried. The corresponding hieroglyph flew through the air, bursting against a demon's chest in a spray of light. Instantly, the demon swelled like a water balloon and rolled screaming down...
Leo got up and brushed himself off. I hate that guy. He offered Jason his arm like they should go skipping together.I`m Dylan. I`m so cool, I want to date myself, but I can`t figure out how! You want...
Why won't you drown? he wailed, pummeling me with his fists.I'm Poseidon's son, I said.Curse that upstart! I was here first!
Eat chocolate first, destroy the world later.
Me, I'm late to meet my girlfriend. Annabeth is going to kill me.Hope you enjoyed the stories. Stay safe out there, demigods.Peace from Manhattan,Percy Jackson
Tyson dropped the two warriors he was about to tie into a knot and jogged after us. He jumped on the centaur's back. 'Dude!' the centaur groaned, almost buckling under Tyson's weight. 'Do the words...
Luke's left side was bloody. His eyes were open-blue eyes, the way they used to be. His breath was a deep rattle. "Good . . . blade," he croaked.
We, the bones that are here, await yours.
As a general rule, I preferred not to have my soul reaped.
The old women only stuck around this long out of a sense of duty. Your mom was the same way. That's why I loved her. She put her duty first, ahead of evverything.
Your lifeline…oh, the burning stick. Right. Leo resisted the urge to set his hand ablaze and yell: Bwah ha ha! The idea was sort of funny, but he wasn't that cruel.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....