“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”

“I hate when people say "quote" when what they really mean is "quotation." How's that for a quote?”

“We ain't anything more than a name and some likes and some distastes, and a story we tell about ourselves.' And what others say about us.”

“We're even more dazed than usual. Here we sit, empty, bewildered, contented. We have nothing to talk about, because nothing happens to us anymore, we're too poor, maybe life is sick of us. Why not?”

“Poseidon put his weathered hand on my shoulder. “Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names…well, it usually says more about them than it does about us. And you, Percy, are my favorite son.”

“We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.”