I gave her a smile that I hoped conveyed something like: Hey, you know I’m on your side. Gods are such jerks! But what can you do? Probably my expression actually conveyed: It’s not my fault! Please do not kill me!
My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and – oh, yeah – head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare time.
I don’t leave her speechless very often. I have to enjoy those rare moments.
Whoa, boy, he told himself. Golden Rule for Demigods: Thou shalt not Hokey Pokey with psychos.
Let me get this straight. Your table ran away because you polished it with Windex?
If you’ve ever tried ba travel, I wouldn’t recommend it – unless of course you fancy turning into a phantom chicken and rafting uncontrollably through the currents of the Duat.
For the rest of my life I would always be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if. -Perseus Jackson.
Die human, DIE!! Die nasty polluting person!!!!? yelled Grover. I turned him so he faced me. He kept on clicking his plastic gun towards me as if I was part of the game.
Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else.
The more you know, the more you try to change them, and that can be disastrous.
People usually asked her if she had a belly button. Of course she had a belly button. She couldn’t explain how. She didn’t really want to know.
If not for the horses, Piper would’ve died.
Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies.
Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.
Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros’s lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them.
Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.
Wisdom’s daughter walks alone. That didn’t just mean without other people, Annabeth realized. It meant without any special powers.
She’d secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she’d fallen for him hard.
Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.
She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.