Many of the best traps are simple. You just have to think about it, and hope your victim doesn't.
Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness
Lookin up at the huge baboons, I wondered if Khufu had some sort of secret baboon code that would get us in. But instead he barked at the statues and cowered heroically behind my legs.
Look, ladies, we've been over this. I don't even remember killing Medusa. I don't remember anything! Can't we just call a truce and talk about your weekly specials? Stheno gave her sister a pouty look...
Let's have a good clean three-legged death race.
Let's boogie,' he (Leo) said. 'Before I come to my senses
Leo had wanted to paint a giant message on the bottom of the hull-WASSUP? with a smiley-face-but Annabeth had vetoed the idea.
Leo frowned at the giant's spire. Can't we blow it up or something?Without me, you do not have the power, Hera said. You might as well try to destroy a mountain.Done that once today, Jason said.
Leo felt trapped. He’d once been stuck in a cave on top of Pikes Peak, surrounded by a pack of werewolves. Another time he’d been stuck in an abandoned factory with a family of evil Cyclopes. But this...
Leo cried, Hold on! Let's have some manners here. Can I at least find out who has the honor of destroying me?I am Cal! the ox grunted. He looked very proud of himself, like he'd taken a long time to m...
Leo choked. Your mom is a rainbow goddess?Got a problem with that? Butch said.No, no, Leo said. Rainbows, very macho.Butch is our best equestrian, Annabeth said. He gets along great with the pegasi.Ra...
Just Leo’s luck. A super-hot immortal girl was waiting for him on Ogygia, but he couldn’t figure out how to wire a stupid chunk of rock into the three-thousand-year-old navigation device. Some problem...
Juniper: Are you guys busy? Percy: Well, we’re in the middle of this game against a bunch of monsters and we’re trying not to die. Annabeth: We’re not busy.
I’ll distract them, Carter said. You search. The Trophy room is through there.Carter!But the fool ran off to protect me. I hate when he does that.
It's not bad enough I am exiled? It's not bad enough you take away the few good heroes I'm allowed to meet? You think it's funny to send me this this this charbroiled runt of a boy to ruin my tranqui...
It's first owner...well, things didn't turn out too well for her. Her name was Helena.'Piper let that sink in. Wait, you mean the Helena? Helena of Troy?'Annabeth nodded.And it's just sitting in your...
If I've got the powers of a god, then why am I so...Lame? Sadie suggested.Shut up, I said.
If I couldn't trust her, I couldn't trust anyone.
If Aphrodite is angry, she might make you fall in love with a toy poodle, or a telephone pole.
I wanted to keep things as normal as possible for the trainees, so I led my usual morning class. I called it Magic Problem-Solving 101. The trainees called it Whatever Works.