Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

"Hermes smiled. "I knew a boy once ... oh, younger than you by far. A mere baby, re"

"Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself."Are you trying to tempt me"Ha-ha."

"Thalia had been turned into a pine tree when she was 12. Me... well, i was doing my best not to follow her example. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if i were ever in the verge of death—plankton, maybe. Or a floating patch of kelp."

"Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches?Annabeth:No, Seaweed Brain. That's HUMMUS. hubris is worse. Percy: what could be worse than hummus? Annabeth: Hubris means deadly pride, Percy. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... Even the gods."

"Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy"Percy... Chiron's collection!"

"Dude! said a party pony as he unloaded his gear. Did you see that bear guy? He was all like: 'Whoa, I have an arrow in my mouth!"

"You weren't able to talk sense into him"Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death."I see. You tried the diplomatic approach."

"It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the internet-"You invented the inte"

"Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up!"

"Which reminded me... I still owed the gods a debt."You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth."

"lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!"

"I'm just a kid, Chiron," I said miserably. "What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos"Chiron managed a smile. '"What good is one lousy hero'? Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said something like that to me once, just before he single-handedly changed the course of your Civil War."

"Hermes's eyes twinkled. "Martha, may I have the first package, please"Martha opened her mouth ... and kept opening it until it was as wide as my arm. She belched out a stainless steel canister-an old-fashioned lunch box thermos with a black plastic top. The sides of the thermos were enameled with red and yellow Ancient Greek scenes-a hero killing a lion; a hero lifting up Cerberus, the three-headed dog."That's Hercules," I said. "But how-"Never question a gift," Hermes chided. "This is a collector's item from Hercules Busts Heads. The first season."Hercules Busts Heads"Great show." Hermes sighed. "Back before Hephaestus-TV was all reality programming. Of course, the thermos would be worth much more if I had the whole lunch box-"

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

"Tyson dropped the two warriors he was about to tie into a knot and jogged after us. He jumped on the centaur's back. 'Dude!' the centaur groaned, almost buckling under Tyson's weight. 'Do the words "low-carb diet" mean anything to you?"

"Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet-"You invented the Inte"

"Hermes gazed up at the stars. 'My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet--"

"Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum."

"Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames."

"That's what makes heroes so special. You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal."