That's us, " he said. "Those five nuts right there.""Which one is me?" I asked."The little deformed one, " Zoe suggested."Oh, shut up.

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.

An apple only falls far from its tree when carried away by divine winds.

When the time travel is eventually doable technologically, yesterday was dead a man who is going to be born tomorrow.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.

In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

Send a drop of kindness, and see a happy face.

I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

The world is yours and everything in it, it's out there- get on your grind and get it.