There's my baby!" I cried, quite carried away, "There's my poochiekins!"..."Sadie, " My dad said firmly, "Please do not refer to the devourer of souls as 'poochiekins'.

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.

I long for acceptance, but all I get is rejection.

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us.

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

There isn’t a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights.

I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first.

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

Today has never happened and it doesn't frighten me.

I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.