Sometimes, when I come back to Washington from Indiana, I feel like an ambassador to a foreign country.
I didn't think I belonged here in her world, a boy stuck between two lives, dragging the dangers of the wolves with me, but when she said my name, waiting for me to follow, I knew I'd do anything to stay with her.
Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
That's what being a demigod was all about, not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature.
I'm both an insider and an outsider.
The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.
I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.
I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.
