I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect.To build something permanent, I said. A monument to last a thousand years.
Ever since my famous battle with Python, I've had a phobia of scaly reptilian creatures. {Especially if you include my stepmother, Hera. BOOM!}
I'll be back with the sandwiches, she said. But I had some leftover seven-layer dip.Yum. Percy dug in with a tortilla chip. She's kinda famous for this, guys.Sally ruffled his hair. There's guacamole,...
1. Good Morning! You're Going to Die 2. The Man with the Metal Bra 3. Don't Accept Rides from Strange Relatives 4. Seriously, the Dude Cannot Drive 5. I've Always Wanted to Destroy a Bridge 6. Make...
I imagined she was going to say, You killed a Minotaur! or Wow, you're so awesome! or something like that. Instead she said, "You drool when you sleep."
Who are you and why are you my cat?
There's nothing here, Carter said.What do you want? I asked. We've got wax, some toilet papyrus, an ugly statue.
Thalia had gotten herself turned into a pine tree when she was twelve. Me ... Well, I was doingmy best not to follow her example. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me intoif I were ever...
I think the hardest thing we can ever do is see someone for who they really are. Our parents. Our friends. Ourselves.
Is Tyson okay?' I asked.The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. 'He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though 'peanut butter' is a strange battle cry.
I caught Bast's arm when she was a few steps from the bank.Stay away from the water.She frowned. Carter, I'm a cat. I'm not going for a swim. But if you want to summon a river goddess, you really need...
I didn't know baboons could drive recreational vehicles, but Khufu did okay. When I woke up around dawn, he was navigating through the early morning rush hour in Houston, baring his fangs and barking...
I don't feel that way anymore," Nico muttered. "I mean... I gave up on Percy. I was young and impressionable, and I-I don't...
Ah, but I'm wise ," Athena said. "Wise enough to make you do it instead.
He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.
We all do, kid. People have destructive impulses. Some of us want to see the world in ruins just for the fun of it... even if we're ruined along with it.
If somebody offers you Hapi pills, just say no!
I started to dream, which was weird not only because I was dead, but because I never dream. People have tried to argue with me about that. They say everybody dreams and I just don't remember mine....
You can't swing a cat in Ancient Greece without hitting one of Zeus's ex-girlfriends.
I have some extra costumes-No! Ephialtes snapped, and for once Percy was in agreement.
Plus, humor is a good way to hide the pain. - Leo
Jason looked like her was trying to figure out an equation. "Let me get this straight. Your table ran away ... because you polished him with windex."
Like death, his father's presence was cold and often callous, but it was real -- brutally honest, inescapably dependable.
Out my left, I saw baboon bum, out my right, my long-lost uncle Amos. Naturally, I decided to focus on the right.
Staying silent, staying away from him... that was the hardest thing I've ever done.
My dear children!Nellie whopped him upside the head with her backpack.Ow! Uncle Alistair curled over, cupping his hand over his good eye.Nellie! Amy said.Sorry, Nellie muttered. I thought he was one...
When in doubt, start from the top.-Jason Grace
My mother made a squeaking sound that might of been either yes or help.Poseidon took it as a yes and came in.Paul was looking back and forth between us, trying to read our expressions.Finally he...
Let me get this straight. Your table ran away because you polished it with Windex?
For the rest of my life I would be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest WHAT IF.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....