“It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up.”

“So for Magic Problem-Solving 101, we headed to the training room and blew stuff up.”

“It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years. ”

“The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before.Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid.”

“You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.”

“I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.”

“So Beckendorf was pretty popular?" Leo asked. "I mean-before he blew up?”