All right, ’ Nico relented. ‘Maybe a little …’ He managed to take off his aviator jacket and wad it into a pillow before he keeled over and began to snore.

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.

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?

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.

It’s amazing how many different roads we can take, but they all lead home.

Ice can kill as dead as fire.

A true writer does not seek wealth or fame does seek to find himself in each of his readers souls.

When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen.

How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.

Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.

I'm very director oriented.

God-forsaken is beautiful, too.

Kat bought a New York Times but couldn’t figure out how to operate it, so now she’s fiddling with her phone.

Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.