Not knowing is half the fun, " Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you? Oh, you kids! It's so cute I'm going to cry!

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.

An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.

Money does not guarantee immortality.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself as public property.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

Investing in our people is going to be costly and scarce - we need to start doing that!

The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child's heart is worth.

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.

He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.

Chess is a matter of daily training.