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.

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.

Apropos, you're going to have to learn to sooner or later that you can't just let other people decide what the world around you should and shouldn't be.

If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.

There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.

I COULDN'T stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?