“There were no windows in my bedroom, so I had to sit up and read my clock to figure out how angry I should be at my visitor. Eight A.M. I hated whoever woke me up. Had they come an hour earlier, I ...”

“So you're the guy who did the no-no cha-cha with my baby sister.”

“You know what the great thing about babies is? They are like little bundles of hope. Like the future in a basket.”

“She whistled when she noticed my back. I assume because of my injuries. I mean, my ass just isn't that spectacular.”

“Mrs. Winalski owned a candy-apple-red 1965 Mustang GT convertible, and she drove it like she could die at any minute and needed to get five things done before that happened.”

“Everyone thinks you've been kidnapped," he said. "We've been scouring the ship. When Coach Hedge finds out- oh, gods, you've been here all night?""Frank!" Annabeth's ears were as red as strawberrie...”

“I looked at him like a stranger, someone Id never seen before, and he looked at me like Id been lost to him for a thousand years and finally found.”

“When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.”

“Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about loveyou know, things I don't care about anymore.”

“There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean a...”

“For the record, I would like to point out that it is NOT being obsessive to memorize a boy's schedule so that you can accidentally bump into him. It is called being efficient.”

“I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower sti...”