Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn’t a compliment. “I will rend your limbs from their sockets!” he shouted. “I will—” “Die?” Carter suggested.

Mr. D," Grover asked timidly, "if you're not going to eat it, could I have your Diet Coke can?

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.

Percy," my father said, "what exactly do you mean?" "Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their parents," I said. "They felt angry, resentful, and unloved, and they had a good reason.

Cabin Fifteen does that to everyone," Annabeth warned. "If you ask me, this place is even more dangerous than the Ares cabin. At least with Ares, you can learn where the land mines are." "Land mines?

Great,” Percy said. “I always wanted to be glue.