"One false step, and you’ll fall all the way to Tartarus—and believe me, unlike the Doors of Death, this would be a one-way trip, a very hard fall! I will not have you dying before you tell me your plan for my artwork."
"Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish."
"Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war.""The plant war,"Percy said. "You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles?"
"Leo,” Hazel gasped, “I can’t—my arms—”“Hazel,” he said. “Do you trust me?”“No!”“Me neither,” Leo admitted."
"She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard."
"We're staying together,"he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again."