“Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.”

“I do not know how much they see through the Mist. I doubt it would matter to them if they knew the truth. Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.”

“lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!”

“so mortals tend to see only what they can understand.”

“Texting, even browsing the Internet - all these things can attract monsters.”

“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.”

“Yay!' he said. 'Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!”