Nico, I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest.

NOW, MY BRETHREN!" Poseidon's voice was so loud I wasn't sure if I was hearing it from the smoke image or from all the way across town. "STRIKE FOR OLYMPUS!

I remembered what she'd told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought - just maybe - we were off to a good start.

It isn’t easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed. -Hephaestus

The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.

I’m the god of funerals. I know every death custom in the world—how to die properly, how to prepare the body and soul for the afterlife. I live for death.” “You must be fun at parties,” I said.

Zeus looked like a really buff, really angry hippie.