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I’d paid for that souvenir the hard way. I wasn’t going to let it go.
I love Percy's humor
“I’m thinking,” she said, “that I want you on my team for capture the flag.”
The ship is being prepared
“I hate prophecies.”
Iconic line forever
The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.”
She loved reading so much, I’d forgotten she was dyslexic, too.
“I am impertinent,” I said.
I felt like drowning myself. The only problem: I was immune to drowning.
“We thought you’d gone to Hades the hard way!”
“You couldn’t read my name correctly. Are you dyslexic, lad?” “No,” I said. “I’m dead.”
The dead aren’t scary. They’re just sad.
So few people did good in their lives. It was depressing.
I wanted to say, Well, these guys don’t look like peace activists. But I thought that might be a dangerous answer.
The sea does not like to be restrained.”
“Your mother is a queen among women,” Poseidon said wistfully. “I had not met such a mortal woman in a thousand years. Still…I am sorry you were born, child. I have brought you a hero’s fate, and a hero’s fate is never happy. It is never anything but tragic.”
There was a different light in his eyes, a fiery kind of pride. “You did well, Perseus. Do not misunderstand me. Whatever else you do, know that you are mine. You are a true son of the Sea God.”
“Poseidon called you a queen,” I told her. “He said he hadn’t met a woman like you in a thousand years.”
“He offered to stop the tide for me once. He offered to build me a palace at the bottom of the sea. He thought he could solve all my problems with a wave of his hand.”
