Even Dionysus’s welcome-home speech wasn’t enough to dampen my spirits. “Yes, yes, so the little brat didn’t get himself killed and now he’ll have an even bigger head. Well, huzzah for that. In other announcements,...

Green grass breaks through snow,Artemis pleads for my help,I am so cool.

God alert!” Blackjack yelled. “It’s the wine dude!Mr. D sighed in exasperation. “The next person, or horse, who calls me the ‘wine dude’ will end up in a bottle of Merlot!

Nico strode forward. The enemy army fell back before him like he radiated death, which of course he did.Through the face guard of his skull-shaped helmet, he smiled. “Got your message. Is it too late...

She studied me with concern. She touched the new streak of gray in my hair that matched hers exactly—our painful souvenir from holding Atlas’s burden. There was a lot I’d wanted to say to Annabeth,...

I’ve got this.” Apollo stepped forward. His fiery armor was so bright it was hard to look at, and his matching Ray-Bans and perfect smile made him look like a male model for battle gear....

Don’t judge someone until you’ve stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh?

I lost hope when I saw the horses’ teeth.As I got closer to the fence, I held my shirt over my nose to block the smell. One stallion waded through the muck and whinnied angrily...

Percy grunted. ‘Probably something to do with that creep Octavian. Maybe he was so bad at telling the future that he broke Apollo’s powers.

Like your zodiac sign?’ Percy asked. ‘I’m a Leo.”No, stupid,’ Leo said. ‘I’m a Leo. You’re a Percy.

Do you know who I am?” she demanded.”Well, you’re Night, I suppose,” said Annabeth. “I mean, I can tell because you’re dark and everything, though the brochure didn’t say much about you.”Nyx’s eyes winked out...

Thalia had gotten herself turned into a pine tree when she was twelve. Me … Well, I was doingmy best not to follow her example. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me intoif...

Whenever Percy stopped by to see [Annabeth], she was so lost in thought that the conversation went something like this:Percy: ‘Hey, how’s it going?’Annabeth: ‘Uh, no thanks.’Percy: ‘Okay…have you eaten anything today?’Annabeth: ‘I think Leo...

Leo got up and brushed himself off. “I hate that guy”. He offered Jason his arm like they should go skipping together.”I`m Dylan. I`m so cool, I want to date myself, but I can`t figure...

I am so awesome. That’s five syllables!” He bowed, looking very pleased with himself.

Because I’m not kissing you until you do. And brush your hair while you’re at it.

Tyson- “Cash? Like…green paper?”Percy- “Yeah.”Tyson- “Like the kind in duffel bags?”Percy-“Yeah, but we lost those bags days a-g-g–.” “Tyson! How did you–“Tyson- “Thought it was a feed bag for Rainbow. Found it floating in sea,...

breaking your heart” a new meaning.

I missed you, Percy.”Percy wanted to tell her the same thing, but it seemed too small a comment. While he had been on the Roman side, he’d kept himself alive almost solely by thinking of...

Jason hated being an old man.

Nico drank from the chalice, then offered it to Jason. “You asked me about trust, and taking a risk? Well, here you go, son of Jupiter. How much do you trust me?”Frank wasn’t sure what...

The goddess smiled. “You are a good hero, Percy Jackson. Not too proud. I like that. But you have much to learn. When Dionysus was made a god, I gave up my throne for him....

You can tell the future?”More like the future mugs me from time to time.’ Rachel said’I speak prophecies. The oracle spirit kind of hijacks me once in a while, and speaks important stuff that doesn’t...

Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other.

I’m Dylan. I’m so cool. I want to date myself, but I don’t know how! You want to date me instead? You’re so lucky!

She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was.

All I could think of was that the teachers must’ve found the illegal stash of candy I’d been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they’d realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer...

The driver got out smiling. He looked about seventeen or eighteen, and for a second, I had the uneasy feeling it was Luke, my old enemy. This guy had the same sandy hair and outdoorsy...

Hey, can I see that sword you were using?”I showed him Riptide, and explained how it turned from a pen into a sword just by uncapping it.”Cool! Does it ever run out of ink?””Um, well,...

That’s me. Ancient history.

What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should’ve been named ADHD poster child of the year.

Atlantis?’ Jason asked.’That’s a myth,’ Percy said.’Uh…don’t we deal in myths?”No, I mean it’s a MADE-UP myth. Not like, an actual true myth.”So this is why Annabeth is the brains of the operation, huh?

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

Percy muttered. ‘I want to drown her.’ ‘Be patient, water boy.’ ‘Don’t call me water boy.

Tell me when it’s over ” Thalia said. Her eyes were shut tight. The statue was holding on to us so we couldn’t fall but still Thalia clutched his arm like it was the most...

Grover and Nico came back from their walk, and Grover helped me fix up my wounded arm.”It’s green!” Nico said with delight.

This was a few weeks ago,” Annabeth said. “Percy told me a crazy story about meeting a boy our near Moriches Bay. Apparently this kid used hieroglyphs to cast spells. He helped Percy battle a...

Please tell me your master isn’t Aeolus.””That airhead?” Favonius snorted. “No, of course not.””He means Eros.” Nico’s voice turned edgy. “Cupid, in Latin.”Favonius smiled. “Very good, Nico di Angelo. I’m glad to see you again,...

Percy?” Annabeth gripped his arm.”Oh, bad,” he muttered. “Bad. Bad.” He looked across the table at Frank and Hazel. “You guys remember Polybotes?””The giant who invaded Camp Jupiter,” Hazel said. “The anti-Poseidon you whacked in...

lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!

I love you.”She wasn’t sure he could hear her—but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words.

I have lightning and wind powers,” Jason reminded him. “Piper can turn beautiful and charm people into giving her BMWs. You’re no more a freak than we are. And, hey, maybe you can fly, too....

He’d changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped...

Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war.””The plant war,” Percy said. “You’re going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles?

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

Nico didn’t like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring – the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father’s presence was cold and often...

His left eyebrow crept higher and higher as I told him the strange bits like the glowing letters and serpent staff. “Well, Sadie,” Inspector Williams said. “You’ve got quite an imagination.” “I’m not lying, Inspector....

Is that me?,’ Leo said. ‘Like me–having this dream–looking at me having a dream?

Hermes gazed up at the stars. “My dear young cousin, if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it....

Percy, let me go” she croaked. “You can’t pull me up.”His face was white with effort. She could see in his eyes that he knew it was hopeless.”Never,” he said. He looked up at Nico,...