Tell me again, exactly what Dr. Thorn said.""Um, I hate middle school dances.""No, no. After that.

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.

Do you know how long I've wanted you? You're like sunlight and water and air to me. All you need to do is walk across my line of sight and my whole world lights up.

Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation.

Life becomes so unfair when you don't get what others do. But don't worry, God has decided something better for you.

The driver knows how much the ox can carry and keeps the ox from being overloaded. You know your way and your state of mind. Do not carry too much.

I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.

I'm actually thinking about getting back to being a bath tub. I don't think anyone's ever quite segued into that.

We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.

Rumor is not always wrong