I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.
Hey. [Leo] squeezed her hand, though Hazel sensed nothing romantic in the gesture. Machines are designed to work.Uh, what?I figure the universe is basically like a machine. I don’t know who made it, i...
Hermes played a little Mozart and some One Direction, and Apollo cried, ‘I must have it! The girls will go wild for that!
He touched the screen as if trying to reach through with his hand. You're a wonderful young lady. I don't tell you that often enough. You remind me so much of your mother. She'd be proud. And Grandpa...
He remembered Apollo, smiling and tanned and completely cool in his shades. Thalia had said, He’s hot. He’s the sun god, Percy replied. That’s not what I meant. Why was Nico thinking about that now? T...
Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent.
Fighting giants was one thing. Bacchus making into a game was something else.
Don’t judge someone until you’ve stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh?
Do yourself a favor,' I said. Forget it. Forget you ever saw me.Forget that you tried to kill me too?Yeah. That, too.But who are you?Percy- I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. Gotta go...
Could an Olympian parent turn against his half-blood child? Would it sometimes be easier just to let them die? If there were ever any half-bloods who needed to worry about that, it was Thalia and me....
Carter looked awful—I mean even worse than usual. Honestly, the boy had never been in a proper school, and he dressed like a junior professor, with his khaki trousers and a button-down brown shirt and...
Annabeth, thank goodness, would be staying in New York. She'd gotten permission from her parentsto attend a boarding school in the city so she could be close to Olympus and oversee the rebuildingeffor...
Also … the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do.
I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learne...
Immortals are constrained by ancient rules. But a hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.-Chiron
You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.
Your head is full of kelp.
You're pretty smug, Lord Ares, for a guy who runs from Cupid statues.
You mean a bad heel? I said. Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense. -Percy
Whenever he felt like giving up, plopping himself down, and dying (which was, like, every ten minutes), he reached over and took her hand, just to remember there was warmth in the world.