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."

"Rachel: You're a half-blood, too?Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about?Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren't human! They're half Greek god!...They don't seem to care."

"Are you guys busy?"Juniper asked. "Well,"I said, "we're in the middle of this game against a bunch of monsters and we're trying not to die.""We're not busy,"Annabeth said."

"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."

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