No man may be completely invulnerable.
All we can do, child, is follow our destiny.
My mother was gone. The whole world should be black and cold. Nothing should look beautiful.
He was beautiful the way an angel is beautiful – timeless, perfect, remote.
A battle can be won before it’s ever fought by choosing the right ground.
We swallowed a few bites-not to much scince the food of the gods can burn you to ashes is you overindulge. I guess thats why you don’t see many fat gods.
I pictured my mom, alone in our little apartment on the Upper East Side. I tried to remember the smell of her blue waffles in the kitchen. It seemed so far away.
My dear, I’m a cat. Everything I see is mine.
I tried to tell them that things would be okay, but I didn’t believe it.
Percy was not feeling the love.
I was wondering how you got all that out of a single moooooo.
As for me, I did the stupidest thing in my life, which is saying a lot. I attacked the Titan Lord Atlas.
Her secret fear? Maybe she didn’t tried hard enough.
She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was.
Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough. The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse.
Armed with my sword and wand, I was all set for a stroll through the swamp to look for a hungry monster. Oh, joy!
The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should’ve brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.
We need a shroud. A shroud for the son of Hermes.
After all the dangerous adventures I’d had, I couldn’t die like this. Sadie would be devastated. Then, once she got over her grief, she’d track down my soul in the Egyptian afterlife and tease me mercilessly for how stupid I’d been.
I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice.