So, ’ Nico said, ‘since we’re going to be spending at least a year seeing each other at camp, I think I should clear the air.’ Percy’s smile wavered. ‘What do you mean?

Nico studied his face – his sea-green eyes, his grin, his ruffled black hair. Somehow Percy Jackson seemed like a regular guy now, not a mythical figure. Not someone to idolize or crush on.

You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought.

A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.

We’re fine.’ A few feet away, Aurum snarled quietly, which meant Nico was lying.

He hated when his own advice applied to himself.

Nico found a sort of freedom in knowing that eventually, no matter what happened, he would end up at the foot of his father’s throne.

Then Thalia Grace became their leader and started recruiting even more young women to their cause, which grated on Nico – as if Bianca’s death could be forgotten. As if she could be replaced.

He'd gone from sixteen to seventy-five in a matter of seconds, but the old-man smell happened instantly, like boom. Congratulations! You stink!

Jason hated being an old man.

He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.

She's in the Catskill, " Shopie began, but Scathach reached over and pinched her hand. "

My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people like you, should you?

I believe that those who knew me [in my youth] took me for an eccentric.

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity.

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.

I always wanted to sing. I didn't know how to do it. I didn't know how to make the singing thing happen.

We can't change what we've done, but we can always change what we're going to do.

No one knows everything. But together, we know a whole lot.