Percy imagined what that would be like: getting an apartment in this tiny replica of Rome, protected by the legion and Terminus the OCD border god. He imagined holding hands with Annabeth at a cafe. Maybe when they were older, watching their own kid chase seagulls across the forum.

Looking up in the sky, I saw the stars were brighter now. They made a pattern I had never noticed before- a gleaming constellation that looked a lot like a girls figure- a girl with a bow, running across the sky. "Let the world honor you, my Huntress. Live forever in the stars.

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

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked.

Sure, sis!' Then he raised his hands in a stop everything gesture. 'I feel a haiku coming on.