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!

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?

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.

The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.

Everyone is taught that angels have wings - the lucky ones of us find that they have 4 paws.

Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.

For those who are on the roof become insolent as they don't know yet about the slope and the slipperiness of the roof!

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

My goal in life is to get as old as I possibly can, to have as much fun as I possibly can, and then die.

Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?