I uncapped the blade, flung open the door, and found myself face-to-face with a black pe

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.

There are some things you can change about your life believe it is possible and take actions. God will grant you the grace.

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

There is nothing better than expressions in words.

So maybe now I might be imagining what it would be like to kiss him again, but that didn’t mean anything.

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

Having been engaged rather a lot of times, Zsa Zsa Gabor was asked whether a lady should give back the ring. Her answer? "Of course dahlink, but first, you take out all the diamonds.