“i remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a sea monster. Maybe she'd gotten too many F's on her report card or something.”

—  Rick Riordan, book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

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