Bessie?” I looked down at the bull serpent. “But… he’s too cute. He couldn’t destroy the world.”-Percy Jackson

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.

The home is always a home and a noble place for shaping hearts! A good home is good for life!

Everyday, spend some time in solitude to repair the damages done by the crowds!

Sometimes you have to control your own life and to do that you have to put your own needs first.

My daddy. He's so funny! My whole family jokes around a lot.

There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

A man becomes the creature of his uniform.

I don't like piracy but if anybody's concerned about piracy, why don't they pay attention to our role in it?

A wise person will listen and take in more instruction.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.