Your lifeline...oh, the burning stick. Right." Leo resisted the urge to set his hand ablaze and yell: BWAH HA HA!

Never bet against a cat.

Menshikov wants to see the old gold swallowed by Apophis. He wants to see the world plunged into darkness and chaos. He is quite insane. "Oh." [great response, I know. But what do you say to a story like that?]

What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!” Percy had no intention of doing that.

Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn't believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling. "That's more like it," Nico said. "Let's turn this tide!

The store had a hand-painted sign the read: MOOSE PASS GAS. "That's just wrong," Frank said.

On the bright side," Percy said, "both Jason and I outrank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to shut up.