“I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth.""How can you be sure?""Because she'd do the same for you.”

“I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep. None of it has anything to do with you. It's just that I don't know what to do now. You must be thinking what a rotten person I am. Well, believe me, I'm thinking the same thing. I don't know how this happened or why. Maybe I can get over it. Do you think you can wait—because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you … not ever …”

“How can you get very far,If you don't know who you are?How can you do what you ought,If you don't know what you've got?And if you don't know which to doOf all the things in front of you,Then what you'll have when you are throughIs just a mess without a clueOf all the best that can come trueIf you know What and Which and Who.”

“You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.”

“I am ready,' I replied.'How do you know you can do it?''Because you require it,' I answered.”

“Do the very best you can, and then move on. Don't expect anything, because you never know where, when, or how your reward will come. Just know it will.”