“Pretty much everything about you gets me hot.”

“General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.”

“That's pretty hot," he said."Punching me in the eye?""Well, no. Of course not. I meant the idea of getting rough with you is hot. I'm a big fan of full-contact sports.""I'm sure you are.”

“You sure about this?" I asked Thalia. She turned to me. "Amaltheia leads me to good things. The last time she appeared, she led me to you."The compliment warmed me like a cup of hot chocolate. I'm a sucker that way. Thalia can flash those blue eyes, give me one kind word, and she can get me to do pretty much whatever.”

“Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.”

“Everything about me is pretty and a lot of it is shrewd. So I had a pretty shrewd idea what was going on.”