“She grabbed his face and pulled him into a kiss, which effectively shut him up.”

“She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men.”

“By the way, I know about the kiss." Then the door clicks shut behind him.”

“Annabeth's face, her blond hair and gray eyes, the way she laughed, threw her arms around him, and gave him a kiss whenever he did something stupid.
She must have kissed me a lot, Percy thought.”

“She thought she kept seeing him because she wanted to see him," Macey explained.
"Ooooh," Bex and Liz sighed together.
"It's a by-product of very dramatic kissing," Macey went on like a doctor identifying a common side effect.”

“Now, leave."
All three boys slumped forward. Percy fell face-first into his pizza.
"Percy!" Annabeth grabbed him.”

“Payne nailing him in the face woke him up.
George brought him back his independence.
But Beth handed him his crown.”

“She thought she was only seeing him because she wanted to see him… It's a by-product of very dramatic kissing.”

“Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”

“In reply Kunti took the regal face in her hands, and kissed him on his brow. Karna shuddered in delight. A warrior reduced to infancy. The ecstasy of that kiss. He dispatched it to the ends of his body. To his toes. His fingertips. His lovely mother's kiss.”