You understand there's no such thing as a little death prophecy, right? - Sam
On my life, Magnus, I swear this is the truth: your father is a Norse god. Now, hurry. We're in a twenty- minute parking spot.
The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice
The driver got out smiling. He looked about seventeen or eighteen, and for a second, I had the uneasy feeling it was Luke, my old enemy. This guy had the same sandy hair and outdoorsy good looks. But...
Personally, I could do without prophecies or quests for awhile.
THE MARK OF ATHENA BABY!!!!!!
As for me, I did the stupidest thing in my life, which is saying a lot. I attacked the Titan Lord Atlas.
Yes, Horus said. I remember this place.It's El Paso, I told him. Unless you went out for Mexican Food, you've never been here.
Monsters are eternal," she told him, trying to keep herself from sobbing. "We will remember you and Damasen as heroes, as the best Titan and the best giant. We'll tell our children. We'll keep the...
Someday, you will make an excellent guardian ba.Thanks, I muttered. Can't wait to be poultry forever.
A Styrofoam egg carton caught his eye. He opened it and found a single silver orb with little blinking red lights. This is cool, too! He dropped it into his backpack.Dan, no!What? They've got plenty...
Amy gritted her teeth. King Louis XVI even put Franklin's picture on a chamber pot!Jonah looked at his dad. Do we have souvenir chamber pots?No. His dad whipped out his phone. I'll make the call.
So for Magic Problem-Solving 101, we headed to the training room and blew stuff up.
Percy yelled. What's going- Gah! Shrimpzilla!
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.
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....