Rick Riordan

You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing. You have to always keep your goals in mind. -Hera, goddess of marriage

But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.

But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily.-Aphrodite

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

Leo: I'm almost out of gas! Woah, that came out wrong. I meant the burning kind!

But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

Hazel! he yelled. That box! Open it!She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te label read WARNING. DO NOT OPEN. Open it! Leo yelled again.

Great victory requires great risk.-Hera

If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.

Fortunately, we did most of our athletic stuff inside, so we didn't have to jog through Tribeca looking like a bunch of boot-camp hippie children.

Leo, Hazel gasped, I can’t—my arms—Hazel, he said. Do you trust me?No!Me neither, Leo admitted.

Percy was getting tired of water.If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Poseidon’s Junior Sea Scouts, but he didn’t care.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.

Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.

Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.

It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up.

Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.