“Percy muttered. ‘I want to drown her.’
‘Be patient, water boy.’
‘Don’t call me water boy.”

“I don’t need to be reminded that we’re up to our heads in dark water. I just want you boys to remember that we’re the gods-damned sharks.”

“Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!”
“Tempting,” Percy called down.”

“Girls are made of water and boys are made of mud. When I am with girls I feel fresh and clean, but when I am with boys I feel stupid and nasty.”

“There is danger in deep water, and danger is more real than beauty in a boy’s mind.”

“I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.”

“The water I breathe would drown the more evolved.”

“It is a strange paradox: Humans drown in the water, fish drown in the land.”

“A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.”

“Life, love, boys—it was all about balance.
~Anna Percy”