I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we would not keep you annoying little brats around."I feel so wanted. Thanks.

You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together.

Hestia shook her head. "I am here because when all else fails, when all the other mighty gods have gone off to war, I am all that's left. Home. Hearth. I am the last Olympian

And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

Erre es korakas, Blinky!" Dionysus cursed. "I will have your soul!

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.

I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.

We need a shroud. A shroud for the son of Hermes.

People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.

I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

The truth is that finding happiness in what you do every day is so imperative.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

Heart is what separates the good from the great.

People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate.