What did he say?" Hazel asked. "With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top," Percy replied.

"He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.

And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. It's like sending up a flare: Here I am! Please rearrange my face!

Life is only precious because it ends, kid.

"Anybody have money?" Frank checked his pockets. "Three denarii from Camp Jupiter. Five dollars Canadian." Hedge patted his gym shorts and pulled out what he found. "Three quarters, two dimes, a rubber band and - score! A piece of celery." He started munching on the celery, eyeing the change and the rubber band like they might be next.

You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around.

Erre es korakas, Blinky!" Dionysus cursed. "I will have your soul!