Lord Th– I mean, Thor,’ said Sam, ‘Won’t you come with us? This is an important battle – the fire lord Surt, Fenris Wolf. Surely that’s worthy of your attention.’Thor’s right eye twitched. ‘That’s a f...
Like water leaking through a dam, said Piper.Yeah, smiled Percy. We've got a dam hole.What? Piper asked.Nothing, he said. Inside joke.
Like death, his father's presence was cold and often callous, but it was real -- brutally honest, inescapably dependable.
Let’s see, today is Thor’s Day the sixteenth. You mean Thursday? That’s what I said. The island will rise on the full moon six days from now, on the twenty-second, which is Woden’s Day. Wednesday? I a...
Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant serpents. Most don't have wings. Most don't breath...
Leo's biggest surprise: One look from Jason, and all three of them knew the game plan. When had that happened, that they could read each other so well?
Leo had a weird memory of a missile hurtling towards him and screaming like a little girl … what the heck had that been about?
Leo gestured to the empty core. The syncopator goes here. It’s a multi-access gyro-valve to regulate flow. The dozen glass tubes on the outside? Those are filled with powerful, dangerous stuff. That g...
Leo could run pretty fast when someone was trying to kill him. Sadly, he’d had a lot of practice.
Knowledge of any value can't be given. It must be sought and earned
Keep a demon busy, I thought. Right. Maybe he fancies a game of Tiddlywinks.
Just keep moving! we're almost there. almost where? Juno chuckled. all roads lead there child. you should know that detention? Percy asked. Rome, child, the old woman said. Rome
It’s my birthday, Horus insisted. Wish me happy birthday!Happy birthday! I yelled. Now shut up!
It's stupid what keeps people apart.
It's natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not...
It's a good thing Jack was no longer in my hands, because I would've pulled a full-on Kylo Ren temper tantrum.
It wasn’t Leo’s finest moment. Panic seized him, and he took off. His only comfort was that his friends did, too – and they weren’t the cowardly type.
It wasn't exactly like talking, but it went something like this: Could you give us a ride north, Percy asked, like as close to Portland as possible?Eat seals, the whale responded. Are you seals?No, Pe...
It was like Percy had faced death before, like he knew about grief. What mattered was listening. You didn’t need to say you were sorry. The only thing that helped was moving on—moving forward.
It was if the city knew about Percy's dream of Gaea. It knew that the earth goddess intended on razing all human civilization, and this city, which had stood for thousands if years, was saying back at...