Mia Cotic

“GIVE ME TIME TO CONSIDER, O IMPATIENT LESTER.
"But I don't have time! We're leaving for Tarquin's tomb like,"—I glanced to the west, where the sun was beginning to sink behind the hills—"basically now!"
THE JOURNEY INTO THE TOMB WILL NOT BE THY FINAL CHALLENGE. UNLESS THOU SUCKETH MOST WOEFULLY.
"Is that supposed to make me feel better?"
FIGHT NOT THE KING, said the arrow. HEAREST THOU WHAT THOU NEEDEST, AND SKEDADDLETH.
"Did you just use the term skedaddleth?"
I TRY TO SPEAK PLAINLY TO THEE, TO GRANT THEE A BOON, AND STILL THOU COMPLAINEST.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb

“Our king Apollo, O child of mighty Zeus,
when you were born your father gave you
a gold headband and a lyre of tortoise shell,
and more: a chariot drawn by swans. You were
to go to Delphi and the Kastalian springs
whose waters are the gift of broad Kephissos,
and there deliver justice to the Hellenes
through the oracles. But when you seized the reins,

you made the swans sail north to the distant land
of the Hyperboreans, and though the Delphians
begged you to return—with paeans of flutes
and circles of women dancing about the tripod—

Apollo, you remained to rule that people
through the long year. Came the season when the tripod
rings loud and clear in Delphi, you turned the swans
to Parnassos. It was high noon of summer
when you glided back from the far northlands;
swallows and nightingales were singing; cicadas
also sang about you; silver brooks poured down
from Kastalia, and the great river Kephissos

threw blue-foaming waves into the bright wind, yes,
even the waters knew a god was coming home.”
― Alkaios

“Wrong body. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, directed by Don Siegel, 1956."
I did not like being compared to a black-and-white horror film, but I'd just been told not to argue with the harpy.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb

“NAY.
"Maybe if I brought you back to the Grove of Dodona?"
NAY! It spoke so forcefully, it almost rattled out of my grasp.
I stared at the arrow, waiting for more, but I got the feeling its outburst had surprised even it.
"So ... are you just making horse sounds now?”
― Rick Riordan, The Tower of Nero