“I saw these men and knew what they wanted, that this was vice, and despicable, and the price of it was Hell.”

“Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men,the Good and the Bad.But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.”

“I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais! And there were times when I knew how you felt, and it was hell to know it, my little one. Lolita girl, brave Dolly Schiller.”

“She knew what she saw, and that was all that mattered. Knew what was behind those hard dark eyes, and wanted it more than anything.”

“Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what pleased them only when they saw it.”

“But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn’t need the Mist to warp their perceptions.”