Arrowflight

“I smiled. "So this horse is your nephew, Sam?"
She glared at me. "Let's not go there."
"How did your dad father a horse?"
Blitzen coughed. "Actually, Loki was Sleipnir's mother."
"What--?"
"Let's definitely not go there," Sam warned.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer

“WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, It’s the Squirrel, you don’t ask questions.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer

“Eww," he said. I almost said the same thing, but unlike my brother, I had been annealed in the furnace of Scientific Thought. Scientists do not say such things aloud (although we may think them from time to time).”
― Jacqueline Kelly, The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate

“My name is Magnus Chase. I’m sixteen years old. This is the story of how my life went downhill after I got myself killed.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer