You can't just abandon your family because they did something horrible. You've done horrible things to them too.

You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together.

Hestia shook her head. "I am here because when all else fails, when all the other mighty gods have gone off to war, I am all that's left. Home. Hearth. I am the last Olympian

And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

Erre es korakas, Blinky!" Dionysus cursed. "I will have your soul!

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.

I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.

We need a shroud. A shroud for the son of Hermes.

It was at the outskirts of the world that the Old Things accumulated, like driftwood round the edges of the sea. ("The Troll")

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.

Public opinion is to an unconventional idea … what abortion is to sperm.

We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.

One of the biggest regrets of life, I think, is a sense of having gone on the trip but missed the adventure.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.

My grandfather always said a sudden shiver meant someone had just stepped on the spot where your grave would be.

You run the race to win, that's for sure.