"Percy, let me go. You can't pull me up." His face was white with effort. She could see in his eyes that he knew it wa…"

"I'll succeed. And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own. We're going to find a way to stop Ga…"

"Percy didn't feel powerful. The more heroic stuff he did, the more he realized how limited he was. He felt like a fra…"

"Stay where I can see you." "What are we, kids?" "Kids are baby goats. They're cute, and they have redeeming social va…"

"Percy tightened his grip on Annabeth's wrist. His face was gaunt, scraped and bloody, his hair dusted with cobwebs, b…"

""Janus and his doorways. He would have you believe that all choices are black or white, yes or no, in or out. In fact…"

"She loved the architecture here. The houses and gardens were very beautiful, very Roman. But she wondered why beautif…"

"Hercules was a bitter, selfish jerk. He'd hurt too many people, and he wanted to keep on hurting them. Maybe he'd had…"

"Annabeth thought she knew pain. She had fallen off the lava wall at Camp Half-Blood. She'd been stabbed in the arm wi…"

""It's natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not. But you faced …"