“When we retell a Bible story at Big Idea we will go through the Bible story very carefully. We'll figure out the key plot points, they key themes and we'll set those aside as, you know, sacred, cannot be messed with. And then, we'll mess with everything else. We'll just have lots and lots of goofy fun with everything else to make the story fresh even to grown-ups.”

“In the end, we'll all become stories.”

“I can try to disable it," I said, "but if I mess up, this whole apartment is going to fill with gas. We'll die."

Thalia swallowed. " I trust you. Just… don't mess it up.”

“People are people. We'll always find a way to mess up, doesn't matter who's in charge.”

“Monsters are eternal,” she told him, trying to keep herself from sobbing. “We will remember you and Damasen as heroes, as the best Titan and the best giant. We'll tell our children. We'll keep the story alive. Someday, you will regenerate.”

“Now that you've grown up
You can finally learn to be a child
We made it to the end of the world
But we'll never make it out alive.”

“So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.”

“Let's go! Attack! You can't lose. Sure, we'll have casualties. Sure, we'll have losses. Sure we'll have wounds. But we'll win, because we cannot lose. It's impossible, for God is with us. We're on the offensive. We're moving. We're attacking. We're active. We're doing something--getting things done--acting, not just talking--samples, not just sermons--activists, not just theorists--converting, changing, conquering.”

“The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own—not with ink, but with our daily choices.”

“We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they?”