No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.

Also ... the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do.

Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon.

Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad.

I told you I try not to live in the past and nothing could change the fact that my mum was gone. But I’m a liar. The truth was, I’d had one dream ever since I was six: to see my mum again. To actually get to know her, talk to her, go shopping, do anything. Just be with her once so I could have a better memory to hold on to.

There were a lot of answers I might've given, from "I knew that" to "LIAR!" to "Yeah right, and I'm Zeus." - Percy, after Quintus says that he is Daedalus

The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk. “Wax,” Carter pronounced. “Fascinating.