Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Zoe ordered the Hunters to start loading. She picked up her camping pack, and Apollo said, Here, sweetheart. Let me get that.Zoe recoiled. Her eyes flashed murderously.Brother, Artemis chided. You do...

Your internal thoughts determine your outer world.

You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn’t cost you much to do it. I’d rather apologize for something I didn’t really care about, and leave someone on...

You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

Will tossed the bloody cloth aside. And you wonder why we aren’t friends. I just wondered, Gabriel said, in more subdued voice, if perhaps you have ever had enough. Enough of what? Enough of behaving...

Why?' - Nasuada'You know why' - Murtagh

Well now, the scholar went on, I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but I consider the queendom lucky that a handful of Milliners and their c...

Those icy bright eyes left her and shifted to his buddy. The frown didn't leave his face. You look likehell.And you're Miss America.

The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, the...

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.

I’m sorry.She bit the inside of her cheek, trying not to cry. At the same time, she was oddly touched by his apology.I’m sorry, he said again.Something tore quite explicitly, and she inhaled but didn’...

I'm so glad you're here, Aphrodite said. War is coming. Bloodshed is inevitable. So there's really only one thing to do.Uh... and that is? Annabeth ventured.Why, have tea and chat, obviously

I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will b...

I love you so much, so incredibly much, he went on, and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm th...

I guess it would be too much to ask to let Savannah bite my neck. Gary made an attempt at humor. He was rubbing his neck, every Dracula movie he had ever seen going through his mind. A low growl rumbl...

I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is 'Disappear Here' and even though it’s probably a...

Hermes gazed up at the stars. My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter...