I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights." Now that we were safely down the mountain, her eyes had their usual angry look. "Don't be stupid." That explains why you freaked out on Apollo's bus. Why you didn't want to talk about it." She took a deep breath. Then she brushed the pine needles out of her hair. "If you tell anyone, I swear—" No, no," I said. "That's cool. It's just… the daughter of Zeus, the Lord of the Sky, afraid of heights?

All I heard was the blood rushing through my ears, and the distant rumble and crackle of the Lake of Fire. (And Khufu scratching himself and grunting, but that was nothing new.)

Scrawny? Baby, I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot.

Right," she said, "We're going to the Land of the Dead and I shouldn't think negative.

So I saved your life, and you repaid me by raising Kronos. That's fair.

Let's boogie,' he (Leo) said. 'Before I come to my senses

Knowledge isn't always good for you.