Then Leo realized something was blocking the middle of his view. Something large and fuzzy, and so close, Leo had to cross his eyes to see it properly. It was a large, ugly face. “Holy...

Looking is the nature of wisdom.

She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.

Poison!” Grover yelped. “Don’t let those things touch you or…””Or we’ll die?” I guessed.”Well…after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes.””Let’s avoid the swords,” I decided.

And, whoa!” He turned to Mr.D. “Your the wine dude? No way!”Mr.D turned hi eyes away from me and gave Nico a look of loathing. “The wine dude?””Dionysus, right? Oh, wow! I’ve got your figurine!””My...

The sign was spray-painted in Arabic and English, probably from some attempt by the farmer to sell his wares in the market. The English read: Dates-best price. Cold Bebsi. “Bebsi?” I asked.”Pepsi,” Walt said. “I...

You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing. You have to always keep your goals in mind.” -Hera, goddess of marriage

Yours in demigodishness, and all that. Peace out!

I pulled out Riptide.

Just don’t ask me to deliver any more satyr babies and we’ll get along great.

Caesar broke the law when he crossed the Rubicon,” Frank said. “Great leaders have to think out side the box sometimes.

A big sacrifice is coming, and you won’t have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It will cost the world dearly.

Oh no.” I said panic rising in my chest. “No, no, no, Somebody get a can opener. I’ve got a god in my head!!

Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality.

What-what do you want?” Annabeth asked, trying to maintain a tone of confidence.The voice cackled maliciously.’To curse you, of course! To destroy you thousand times in the name of Mother Night!'”Only a thousand times?” Percy...

Nico wasn’t sure whether to kick himself or Will Solace. If he hadn’t been so distracted bickering with the son of Apollo, he would never have allowed the enemy to get so close.

No, no, I never mess around.

It’s him,” I said. “Typhon.”I was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like ‘No, that’s our huge friend Leroy! He’s going to help us!

Good fighting with you, Seaweed Brain.”Ditto.

She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doing the same thing. The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really...

Athena stood in the middle of the road with her arms crossed and a look on her face that made me think Uh-oh. She’d changed out of her armor, into jeans and a white blouse,...

Don’t you ever feel like, what if the world really IS messed up? What if we COULD Do it all over again from scratch? No more war. Nobody homeless. No more summer reading homework.’m listening....

The ruins stretch from the river to the base of that mountain over there, about half a kilometre.’ ‘How far is that in regular measurements?’ Percy asked. Frank rolled his eyes. ‘That is a regular...

I stared at her. Maybe I wasn’t the brightest guy in the world when it came to girls, but I was pretty sure Rachel had just dumped me, which was lame considering we’d never even...

Maybe it’s okay to still be a kid every once in a while.

The whole crew sat on the deck, without a storm or a monster attack to worry about for the first time in days, and ate ice cream. Well, except for Frank, who was lactose intolerant....

Oh, he’s not like that,” said Favonius.Jason flinched. “You can read my mind?””I don’t need to.” Favonius tossed his bronze hoop in the air. “Everyone has the wrong impression of Cupid… until they meet him.

Jump in the harbor,” he said casually, like another kid might say, I’m going to get a snack.

Fair… You’d be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother...

You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.

Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.

Right,” she said, “We’re going to the Land of the Dead and I shouldn’t think negative.

Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris. “Yeah, here’s a rare grocery...

Fear can’t be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They’re like love. They’re almost identical emotions. That’s why Ares and Aphrodite like each other. Their twin sons – Fear and Panic – were spawned from both...

He’d gone from sixteen to seventy-five in a matter of seconds, but the old-man smell happened instantly, like boom. Congratulations! You stink!

I don’t fight without reason. I don’t want war without end.

Hades allowed himself the faintest smile, but there was nothing cruel in his eyes. ‘I can entertain the possibility that you acted for multiple reasons. My point is this: you and I rose to the...

He looked at the silver pocketknife in his hand. An idea came to him – possibly the stupidest, craziest idea he’d had since he thought, Hey, I’ll get Percy to swim in the River Styx!...

Then Percy let go of his tiny ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness.

All right,’ Nico relented. ‘Maybe a little …’ He managed to take off his aviator jacket and wad it into a pillow before he keeled over and began to snore.

Ella was fluttering above him, dodging missiles and calling out advice: “The groin. The Earthborn’s groin is sensitive.”SMASH!”Good. Yes. Tyson found its groin.

And for once i didn’t look back.

Percy (to Annabeth): If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I’d pick you.Silena: Awww . . . Percy, that is so sweet!Annabeth: Shut up, Silena.

We need music,” Nico said. “How’s your singing?””Um, no. Can’t you just, like, tell it to open? You’re the son of Hades and all.””It’s not so easy. We need music.”I was pretty sure if I...

You do not help my Hunters. You do not look at, talk to, or flirt with my Hunters. And you do not call them sweetheart.

Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument.

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

You’re cute when you’re worried,” she muttered. “Your eyebrows get all scrunched together.”You are not going to die while I owe you a favor,” I said. “Why did you take that knife?”You would’ve done the...

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!

Zoe readied her arrows. Grover lifted his pipes. Thalia raised her shield and I noticed a tear running down her cheek. Suddenly it occurred to me: this had happened to her before.She had been cornered...