Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.
She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades’s gym shorts.
He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you’re my best friend and I don’t want you to die!
You drool when you sleep.
The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come to kill us.
Number eight, the silver one, belongs to Artemis. She vowed to be a maiden forever. So of course, no kids. The cabin is, you know, honorary. If she didn’t have one, she’d be mad.
Whats up, Seaweed Brain?
Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I’m wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck.
I pulled out Riptide.
Wouldn’t that put a twist in your toga?
Sometimes small things can become very large, indeed.
No, no, I never mess around.
Fortunately, we did most of our athletic stuff inside, so we didn’t have to jog through Tribeca looking like a bunch of boot-camp hippie children.
Before I could figure out how to apologize for being such an idiot, she tackled me with a hug, then pulled away just as quickly. “I’m glad you’re not a guinea pig.” “Me, too.” I hoped my face wasn’t as red as it felt.
There were a lot of answers I might’ve given, from “I knew that” to “LIAR!” to “Yeah right, and I’m Zeus.” – Percy, after Quintus says that he is Daedalus.
Rachel: They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb. Annabeth: Was it hard?
I can’t get through the year without getting kicked out or blowing something up.
That was so completely unfair that I told Tantalus to go chase a donut, which didn’t help his mood.
Don’t feel bad, I’m usually about to die.
Sanchez looked at me and we locked eyes a second too long. There was nothing I could do about it. The signal went out. A moment of clear, silent hostility passed between us as hotly charged and unintentional as a thousand-volt arc through a squirrel.