“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...”

“Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.”

“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.”

“I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.”

“The throne rumbled. A wave of gale-force anger slammed int”

“You speak horse?" Hazel asked."Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mean a Neptune thing.""Then you and Arion should get along fine," Hazel said. "He's a son of Neptune too."...”