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“I guess it wasn't everyday they see a yellow lifeboat with no engine going a hundred knots an hour, manned by three kids.”

“If i'm going to survive, it won't be because i have a lion-skin cloak. I'm not Hercules.”

“Beckendorf, whose legs were now working fine (nothing like being chased by a huge monster to get your body back in order) shook his head and gasped for breath. “You shouldn’t have turned it on! It’s unstable! After a few years, automatons go wild!”

“Your destiny grows clearer, Jason Grace. When the choice comes again- storm or fire- remember me. And do not despair.”

“The gods need heroes. They always have.”

“Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling as I sewed together the pockets of all the boys who'd jilted me.”

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

“Is Tyson okay?' I asked.
The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. 'He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though 'peanut butter' is a strange battle cry.”

“You mean a bad heel?" I said. "Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense."
-Percy”

“I thought about all the things I was suddenly able to do—like fight with a sword and summon a magical shell of armor. Those were not things I covered in home school.”

“Don't Worry, Be Hapi.”

“I looked into his eyes, and I realized he was the same man I'd seen in my dreams. His face might be totally different, but the same soul was in there, the same intelligence and all the sadness.”

“I looked back, but Bast and Sadie seemed fine. They were still staring at the water as if it were some amazing Internet video.”

“So for Magic Problem-Solving 101, we headed to the training room and blew stuff up.”

“Should I get you a shovel, so you can dig that hole deeper?”

“I have some extra costumes-"
"No!" Ephialtes snapped, and for once Percy was in agreement.”

“I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Holla Mayne!”

“Staying silent, staying away from him… that was the hardest thing I've ever done.”

“Being turned into a lizard can really mess up your day.”

“Let me get this straight. Your table ran away because you polished it with Windex?”

“How do you have five children in a row, each on a different say?”
“They’re gods,” Carter said. “They can do stuff like that.”

“You remind me of myself ” Bes continued “back when I was a young dwarf. You got a stubborn
streak. When it comes to girl problems you’re clueless.”

“The Cyclopes growled, "I don't see very well since the last hero poked my eye out, but you're… NO… LADY… CYCLOPES!”

“WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, It’s the Squirrel, you don’t ask questions.”

“Spontaneous combustion IS a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in.”

“His lion and hippo legs twitched. I wondered if netherworld monsters dreamed of chasing rabbits.”

“And now, Anubis, I find you in this den of iniquity, this morass of questionable behavior, this… this--'

'School?”

“My dear children!"
Nellie whopped him upside the head with her backpack.
"Ow!" Uncle Alistair curled over, cupping his hand over his good eye.
"Nellie!" Amy said.
"Sorry," Nellie muttered. "I thought he was one of the bad guys.”

“He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.”