Maybe—just maybe—Sadie had my best interests at heart. (I just caught her making faces at me, so maybe not.)

Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.

I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts" - Leo Valdez

I try very hard to be annoying. Don’t insult my ability to annoy.

"We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again."

Narcissus turned and scowled at Leo. “Who are you?” “I’m the Super-sized McShizzle, man!” Leo said. “I’m Leo Valdez, bad boy supreme. And the ladies love a bad boy.

This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..." "Repair boy." "Very funny, Piper.

Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.

You must forge your own path for it to mean anything.

Leo: Rainbows. Very macho. Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the pegasi. Leo: Rainbows, ponies... Butch: I'm gonna toss you off this chariot.

It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

Although it may be unused, the front door continues to appeal to our sense arrival. Call it the ceremony of coming home.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

There are bands now, and for years, that called themselves emo. I never followed that stuff.

Too late, but I understand. That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that -- of just that.

If we destroy their environments and communities, we will lose the answers they have to solving our problems, and to the protection of our common futures.

Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?

The thing to do in this lifetime is to create more merit.

What defines us is how well we rise after we fall.