“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”

“We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.”

“The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.”

“Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And i...”

“You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you. - Pan”

“They send a person who can never stay," she whispered. "Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They send me a hero I can't help ... just the sort of person I c...”

“The sight of a worm excites my reverence more than all the gods men have invented.”

“For the natural polytheist, whose gods arise in and from the natural material world ... Our gods not only have transcendent eyes and metaphysical hands. They have antlers and feathers, hooves and s...”

“I sing to you of many more gods, gods of wind and water, gods of each mineral and the events that created them. I sing to you of the gods of protons, of quarks, of atomic forces binding and holding...”

“It was never a good idea to laugh at a God as powerful as Hades. Although, the sight of him with cream-colored paint smeared in his raven dark hair and smudged on his nose was comical. "Already wen...”

“Stars are tragic. Most of the stars are nothing but reminders of love gone horribly wrong, or men challenging the gods.”

“I am the god of dreams, but not even I would dream of speaking for Hades, Morpheus replied with a mischievous look in his eyes. But if I had to guess, I would say its because he knows how destructi...”

“So, Nico said, since were going to be spending at least a year seeing each other at camp, I think I should clear the air. Percys smile wavered. What do you mean?”

“Nico was devastatingly alone. Hed lost his big sister Bianca. Hed pushed away all other demigods whod tried to get close to him. His experiences at Camp Half-Blood, in the Labyrinth and in Tartarus...”

“I had a crush on Percy," Nico spat. "That's the truth. That's the big secret.”