I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth." "How can you be sure?" "Because she'd do the same for you.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling as I sewed together the pockets of all the boys who'd jilted me.

There," Zoë suggested."By the Embarcadero Building." "Good thinking," Chuck said. "Me and Hank can blend in with the pigeons." We all looked at him. "Kidding," he said. "Sheesh, can't a statues have a sense of humor?

Now, leave." All three boys slumped forward. Percy fell face-first into his pizza. "Percy!" Annabeth grabbed him.

My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.

Leo fell in love with every girl he saw-as long as she was completely out of his league.