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What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?" "I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you." "Why?" "Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?

She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts.

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

You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.

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

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

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.

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.

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.

Does truth have a moral?

Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.

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

The real world is where the monsters are.

Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

Humans see what they want to see.

The sea does not like to be restrained.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.