No hero is above fear.

Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.

I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts" - Leo Valdez

I try very hard to be annoying. Don’t insult my ability to annoy.

"We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again."

Narcissus turned and scowled at Leo. “Who are you?” “I’m the Super-sized McShizzle, man!” Leo said. “I’m Leo Valdez, bad boy supreme. And the ladies love a bad boy.

This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..." "Repair boy." "Very funny, Piper.

Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.

You must forge your own path for it to mean anything.

Leo: Rainbows. Very macho. Annabeth: Butch is our best equestrian, he gets along great with the pegasi. Leo: Rainbows, ponies... Butch: I'm gonna toss you off this chariot.

It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

Many people just think they understand English, remember.

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

All the money in the world can't buy you back good health.

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions.

If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

The Christian church was born in song.

Live like your always trying to impress someone

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.