“It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them," she said.”

“She can have them, Mama," she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her.”

“I will not have them punished," Artemis said. "I will have them rewarded. If we destroy heroes who do us a great favor, then we are no better than the Titans. If this is Olympian justice, I will have none of it."Calm down, sis," Apollo said. "Jeez, you need to lighten up."Don't call me sis! I will reward them.”

“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”

“I have never heard of them, but, if it was a child who showed them to you, they exist.”

“In this box are all the words I know…Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made with these words. With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is to use them well and in the right places.”