You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn... - Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

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

"Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things."

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

"People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed."

"We'd spent maybe ten minutes together, during which time I'd accidentally swung a sword at her, she'd saved my life, and I'd run away chased by a band of supernatural killing machines. You know, your typical chance meeting."