There’s no point in defending camp if you guys die. All our friends are here.
For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across – hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.
So few people did good in their lives. It was depressing.
I wasn’t aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.
I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher.
Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames.
No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. – Poseidon.
Tyson thought Annabeth was just about the coolest thing since peanut butter, and he SERIOUSLY loved peanut butter.
As we rose over the rooftops I caught my breath-well, if you can catch your breath underwater.
I couldn’t help thinking about my dream, with Annabeth crumpled and lifeless in Luke’s arms. Here I was rescuing baby monsters, but I couldn’t save my friend.
I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.
My name is Carter Kane. I’m fourteen and my home is a suitcase.
You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut’s tomb? My dad’s your man.
I’d come to respect the bag.
He crossed the street toward the man in the trench coat, which left me with two choices: follow my dad and see what was going on, or do what I was told. I decided on the slightly less dangerous path. I went to retrieve my sister.
I hadn’t seen my dad get violent since the Great Spatula Incident, and I wasn’t anxious to see a repeat of that.
He looked like those paintings of baby angels – what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That’s it. He looked like a cherub who’d turned middle-aged in a trailer park.
The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.
I have moments like that alot, when my brain falls asleep or something, and the next thing I know I’ve missed something, as if a puzzle piece fell out of the universe and left me staring at the blank place behind it. – Percy Jackson.
I wasn’t sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what.