I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth.""How can you be sure?""Because she'd do the same for you.

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

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.

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.

Pride achieves almost nothing but destroys a lot.

Even though I am going to miss out on my prom or I am going to miss out on walking across stage to accept my diploma, that's OK to me because I know I will have other perks in life.

For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet.

The music is in no way politically based - I'm not trying to make a point about sampling. It may bring up issues but I'm not trying to push it on anyone.

When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

Computers are only capable of a certain kind of randomness because computers are finite devices.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?