Grover started to sniffle and I figured if I didn't cheer him up he'd either start bawling or chewing up my mattress. He tends to eat household objects whenever he gets upset.

Zoë threw up her hands in exasperation. "I hate this language. It changes too often!

If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff?

Yay!' he said. 'Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!

There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.

You promised you would protect her Nico said. He might as well have stabbed me with a rusty dagger.It would've hurt less than reminding me of my promise.

Your former friend Luke " Poseidon corrected. "He once promised things like that. He was Hermes's pride and joy. Just bear that in mind Percy. Even the bravest can fall.

So I took her hand, and I don't know what everybody else heard, but to me it sounded like a slow dance: a little sad, but maybe a little hopeful, too.

I stared at him (Dionysus). "You're...you're married? But I thought you got in trouble for chasing a wood nymph-

She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts.

The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.

Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.

If you look at it, life is like one big series of lessons, that starts the moment we are born.

You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.

Openness is allowing and directing the energy of the Universe to flow through you freely, giving and taking with ease.

I know a secret, and secrets breed paranoia.

I always have issues with trust.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.

Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it.

I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.