As I sailed into the lake I realized the Fates really were cruel. They sent Calypso someone she couldn’t help but love. But it worked both ways. For the rest of my life I would be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if.
He wasn’t steaming anymore, but the incident on the ice bridge had really freaked Jason out. Leo hadn’t seemed to realize that he had smoke coming out his ears and flames dancing through his hair. If Leo started spontaneously combusting every time he got excited, they were going to have a tough time taking him anywhere. Jason imagined trying to get food at a restaurant. I’ll have a cheeseburger and – Ahhh! My friend’s on fire! Get me a bucket!
Be careful,” Sam warned me. “Gunilla is powerful.” “Also kind of a butt.” The corner of Sam’s mouth twitched. “That, too.
The older you are, the harder it is to accept that the world might not be the way you thought it was.
Cause nobody’s standing in my way when I’m this close.
Note to self, Leo thought groggily. Do not leave boxes of magic grenades where dwarfs can reach them.
Eventually we all must return home, Praetor. We must embrace our past, no matter how bitter and dark.” – Orion.
Make Way for Ducklings, or They Will Smack You Upside the Head.
Chocolate should be savored, not rushed.
Oh, obviously,” Reyna said. “Without you, I doubt Percy could find his way out of a paper bag.” “True,” Annabeth agreed. “Hey!” Percy complained.
The bigger they are, the easier it is to fly up their nasal cavity.
Perhaps I simply didn’t think about it too much. I’ve found that thinking often interferes with doing. It’s one of those lessons that gods learn early in their careers.
The girl is right, Vidar signed. Time is wasting. “Listen to brave Vidar, girl,” said Thor. “Loki’s capture can wait for another day. Right now we should be celebrating the return of my hammer!” That’s not what I said, Vidar signed.
Just keep going, do your best, and hope it’s good enough. That’s all any of us can do.
Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy’s sons or daughters might have to face them all over again.
I guess he, like, passed the test, so he threw away his notes.′ Annabeth looked horrified. ‘Are you crazy? You throw away your notes after a test?’ ‘Doesn’t everybody, Miss Brainiac?
Pretty didn’t do it justice. I felt like we’d sailed into a world meant for much larger beings, a place where gods and monsters roamed freely.
Laistrygonians. The monsters in the gym. They’re a race of giant cannibals who live in the far north. Odysseus ran into them once, but I’ve never seen them as far south as New York before.” “Laistry – I can’t even say that. What would you call them in English?” She thought about it for a moment. “Canadians,” she decided.
A good artist must be good at many things.
He’s a little grumpy,” Asclepius said. “People are always confusing my staff with the staff of Hermes, which has two snakes, obviously. Over the centuries, people have called Hermes’s staff the symbol of medicine, when of course it should be my staff. Spike feels slighted. George and Martha get all the attention. Anyway...