A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It will cost the world dearly.

Yours in demigodishness, and all that. Peace out!

Life is only precious because it ends, kid.

It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.

[Iris] squeezed his hand. "Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope.

Her name badge read: Hello! My name is DIE, DEMIGOD SCUM!

The thing about plummetting downhill at fifty miles an hour on a snack platter - if you realize it's a bad idea when you're halfway down, it's too late.

Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are

June cackled with delight, muttering, "Whoops!" as a car almost killed them.

Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate

It was like Percy had faced death before, like he knew about grief. What mattered was listening. You didn’t need to say you were sorry. The only thing that helped was moving on—moving forward.

Van Halen is a work in progress.

I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.

If you imagine that everything is an exchange, then we're supposed to just transact and walk away. If we haven't walked away and we still have a relationship, it's because there's a debt.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.

No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.

If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.