It almost made me long for the flying pig.--Percy

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.

Enjoy this moment. This moment is your precious life.

And I? I drink, I burn, I gather dreams.And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words before she goes to sleep.

I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a perfect pirouette. I clutched it and held it tight.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

And there shall be a flame-green daybreak soon. And love itself will cry for insurrection! For tomorrow is also a day - and Titus has entered his stronghold.

When I draw, I rule the world.

If by reaction you mean critical reaction, I was confident that we were putting out a quality book [ Treachery]. So I was reasonably sure that we'd get positive notices.

Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another.