Life is only precious because it ends, kid.

He scowled at Jason. "And please, I don't like being touched. Don't ever grab me again.

We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about.

She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts.

I hadn't seen my dad get violent since the Great Spatula Incident, and I wasn't anxious to see a repeat of that.

At the Feast of Fortune, she'll awaken, and the demigods will be cut down like-- like---" "Like our low prices at Bargain Mart!" Stheno suggested.

You mean a bad heel?" I said. "Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense." -Percy