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?

We can’t make a portal—” “We’ve got a flying boat,” Carter offered.

Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn’t realize that “test” is normally a bad thing.

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

You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together.

everybody-even monsters-needed a little attention once in a while.

Please excuse Jason from eternal damnation. He has had amnesia.