The wood nymph instructors left me in the dust. They told me not to worry about it. They'd had centuries of practice running away from lovesick gods. But still, it was a little humiliating to be slower than a tree.

Many of the best traps are simple. You just have to think about it, and hope your victim doesn't.

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

Look," Percy continued, "I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in the nineteen eighties-" "He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.

Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.

He just raised the dead with coke and cheeseburgers

"We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again."