“The hill road wound upwards, as hill roads do, unless you're coming down them, of course.”

“Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.”

“Then at the top of the hill, the road forks.Which just figures."You gotta be kidding." I say.One part of the road goes left, the other goes right.(Well, it's a "Fork" ain't it?)”

“No one would ever find her here. Even from the high saddle there was no sign of the way she'd come, no path, no road, only the bent backs of the hills repeating themselves, over and over, on one side of the road all the way to the western mountains, on the other to the sea.”

“Race you to the road?" I said."You are so going to lose." She (Annabeth) took off down Half-Blood Hill and I sprinted after her.For once, I didn't look back.”

“The lights of Knoxville quaked in a faint penumbra to the west as must the ruins of many an older city seen by herders in the hills, by barbaric tribesmen shuffling along the roads.”