And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together.

Hestia shook her head. "I am here because when all else fails, when all the other mighty gods have gone off to war, I am all that's left. Home. Hearth. I am the last Olympian

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

Erre es korakas, Blinky!" Dionysus cursed. "I will have your soul!

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.

I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.

We need a shroud. A shroud for the son of Hermes.

I stared at her. Maybe I wasn't the brightest guy in the world when it came to girls, but I was pretty sure Rachel had just dumped me, which was lame considering we'd never even been together.

Recovery feels like shit. It didn't feel like I was doing something good

Sometimes I didn't even have enough money to eat. I became so weak from malnourishment that my hair fell out, and I couldn't get out of bed.

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

You are losing out because Mexican rapists are taking your job.

We're going to protect Christianity. We don't have to be politically correct about it.

Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.

Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.