Piper drew her dagger. Jason grabbed an ice-covered plank off the pool floor. Leo reached into his tool belt, but he was so shaken up, all he produced was a tin of breath mints. He shoved them back in, hoping nobody had noticed, and drew a hammer instead.
I was about to inhale the river when I noticed a faint green glow above me. Air? Radiation? Limeade? Any of those sounded better than drowning in the dark. I kicked upward.
Thor frowned as if he’d just had a thought, which must have been a painful experience.
Since moving to Valhalla, I’d learned an impressive number of Old Norse cusswords. Meinfretr translated as something like stinkfart, which was, naturally, the worse kind of fart.
You, sir, are a ray of sunshine.
Maybe Piper could shoot their enemies with high-velocity smoked hams.
Your heart is always in the right place. Listen to it.
You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal. Monsters never die. They are reborn from the chaos and barbarism that is always bubbling underneath civilization, the very stuff that makes Kronos stronger. They must be defeated again and again, kept at bay. Heroes embody that struggle. You fight the battles humanity must win, every generation, in order to stay human.
You killed Thor!” Otis bleated. “You dropped a giantess on him!
Percy smiled. “Is he a fighter? Frank, you’re looking at General Tyson of the Cyclops army. And by the way, Tyson, Frank is a descendant of Poseidon.” “Brother!” Tyson crushed Frank in a hug.
Nobody steals my pegasus. Not even Rachel. I wasn’t sure if I was more angry or amazed or worried.
Those Athena children always had a plan.
I like that theory because Annabeth likes that theory, and if I don’t like what she likes, she gets all ha-mazan on me.
Look, some people prefer they,” Alex said. “They’re nonbinary or mid-spectrum or whatever. If they want you to use they, then that’s what you should do. But for me, personally, I don’t want to use the same pronouns all the time, because that’s not me. I change a lot. That’s sort of the point. When I’m she, I’m she. When I’m he, I’m he. I’m not they. Get it?
Polybotes found it difficult to say good-bye, since he no longer had a head.
You are not alone. You are part of the Olympian family. The gods have not abandoned you.
Daybreak is a good time for decisions.
Thalia had said, He’s hot. He’s the sun god, Percy replied. That’s not what I meant.
They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world.
I don’t know if Daedalus will help you, lad, but don’t judge someone until you’ve stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh?