“Next Mrs. Crupp said it was clear she couldn't be in two places at once (which I felt to be reasonable). . .”
“When I have to be in two places at once, my mind at once decides twice which one place to be in.”
“But on a clear, sunny day? How would she know to flee when she couldn't see any place for danger to hide?”
“In that moment, she had felt like there wasn't a place in the world he wouldn't go with her, and she couldn't think of a single place she wanted to go without him.”
“Percy," my father said, "what exactly do you mean?" "Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their parents," I said. "They felt angry, resentful, and unloved, and they had a good reason.”
“I couldn't tell you why she felt that way but she felt it everyday. I couldn't help her; I just watched her make the same mistakes again.”