I’m calm, Rachel insisted. Every time I’m around you, some monsters attack us. What’s to be nervous about?Look, I said. I’m sorry about the band room. I hope they didn’t kick you our or anything.Nah. They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb.Was it hard? Annabeth asked.
My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.
She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn’t help thinking there was nothing hotter than a girl who didn’t mind getting her hands dirty. But of course, that was just a general comment. Didn’t apply to Calypso. Obviously.
Rachel: You’re a half-blood, too?Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about?Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren’t human! They’re half Greek god!…They don’t seem to care.
It was beautiful in a harsh I’m-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.
But Grover’s voice was already growing fainter. ‘Sweet dreams. Don’t let me die!
Coach Hedge came pounding up the stairs with Hazel at his hooves.“Where are they?” he demanded. “Who do I kill?”“No killing!” Annabeth ordered. “Just defend the ship!”“But they interrupted a Chuck Norris movie!
Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris. Yeah, here’s a rare grocery list, Dan muttered. Wow.
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.
Frank didn’t drop you on purpose,” she said. “He’s not like that. He’s just a little clumsy sometimes.”“Oops,” Leo said, in his best Frank Zhang voice. “Dropped Leo into a squad of enemy soldiers. Dang it!
Percy was getting tired of water.If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Poseidon’s Junior Sea Scouts, but he didn’t care.
Before I could lose my courage, I said, Don’t I get a kiss for luck? It’s kind of a tradition, right?I figured she would punch me. Instead, she drew her knife and stared at the army marching toward us. Come back alive, Seaweed Brain. Then, we’ll see.
Dreams like a podcast,Downloading truth in my ears.They tell me cool stuff.Apollo? I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad.He put his finger to his lips. I’m incognito. Call me Fred.A god named Fred?
Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don’t know how lucky you are
It’s okay,” he said. “We’re together.” He didn’t say you’re okay, or we’re alive. After all they’d been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that.
Don’t dwell on things. Don’t stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.
Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy’s ear. “I love you.”
She wasn’t sure he could hear her—but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words.
You promised, Seaweed Brain. We would not get separated! Ever again!”
“You’re impossible!”
“Love you too!
We’re staying together,” he promised. “You’re not getting away from me. Never again.
Nico found a sort of freedom in knowing that eventually, no matter what happened, he would end up at the foot of his father’s throne.
Nico didn’t like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring – the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father’s presence was cold and often callous, but it was real – brutally honest, inescapably dependable.
If you ever leave me again,’ she said, her eyes stinging, ‘I swear to all the gods-‘
Percy had the nerve to laugh. Suddenly the lump of heated emotions melted inside Annabeth.
‘Consider me warned,’ Percy said. ‘I missed you, too.
Leo couldn’t help smiling. That could be fun.Fun she said unhappily.Blue elephants.Blue elephants.Kiss me you fool.You fool.
But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.
I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil’ Demons lunch box. I left him alive – partly because he had a cool lunch box…
No,’ Nico said. ‘Getting a second life is one thing. Making it a better life, that’s the trick.’ As soon as he said it, Nico realized he could’ve been talking about himself. He decided not to bring that up.
Then Thalia Grace became their leader and started recruiting even more young women to their cause, which grated on Nico – as if Bianca’s death could be forgotten. As if she could be replaced.
Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I’m just smoke. She can’t touch me, right?He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!
Stars, she whispered. I can see the stars again, my lady.A tear trickled down Artemis’s cheek. Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight.Stars, Zoe repeated. Her eyes fixed on the night sky. And she did not move again.
Deadlines just aren’t real to me until I’m staring one in the face.
Getting something and having the wits to use it…those are two different things.
Stop! Narcissus got to his feet. This is not right! This person is obviously not awesome, so he must be… He struggled for the right words. It had probably been a long time since he’d talked about anything other than himself. He must be tricking us. Apparently Narcissus wasn’t completely stupid.
Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.
Yes! Narissus unslung his bow and grabbed an arrow from his dusty quiver. The first one who get that bronze, I will like you almost as much as I like me. I might even kiss you, right after I kiss my reflection! Oh my gods! the nymphs squealed.
Leo,” Hazel gasped, “I can’t—my arms—”“Hazel,” he said. “Do you trust me?”“No!”“Me neither,” Leo admitted.
Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other.
I’m the Super-sized McShizzle, man! Leo said. I’m Leo Valdez, bad boy supreme. And the ladies love a bad boy.
Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.
The meeting was like a war council with donuts. Then again, back at Camp Half-Blood they used to have their most serious discussions around the Ping-Pong table in the rec room with crackers and Cheez Whiz, so Percy felt right at home.
Etiquette tip: If you’re looking for the right time to leave a party, when the host yells, No one leaves here alive, that’s your cue.
One false step, and you’ll fall all the way to Tartarus—and believe me, unlike the Doors of Death, this would be a one-way trip, a very hard fall! I will not have you dying before you tell me your plan for my artwork.
You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing. You have to always keep your goals in mind.” -Hera, goddess of marriage