I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down.

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 art of effective leadership is about navigating the dynamics of growth and success… holding a vision and leading a team, but arriving at the same time.

I admire successful men and women who endured and overcome unusual circumstances to fulfill their dreams.

Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.

I am a very reclusive, private person.

I'd like to think that I have integrity.

Jesus refused to produce a sign for Herod because it was not the Father's will.

Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth.

It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, "Oh, I could've done without that. If I could go back in time, I would do it different." That's the thing with violence in general.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.