Quotes from book

The Battle of the Labyrinth

“Oh, I see,” Poseidon said. “A shame. I quite like blow-fish. I am Poseidon.”
“Poseidon? That’s an interesting name.”
“Yes, I like it. I’ve gone by other names, but I do prefer Poseidon.”
“Like the god of the sea.”
“Very much like that, yes.”

“There were a lot of answers I might've given, from "I knew that" to "LIAR!" to "Yeah right, and I'm Zeus." - Percy, after Quintus says that he is Daedalus”

“It isn’t easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed.

-Hephaestus”

“So which way now, Sacagawea?" - Annabeth to Rachel”

“With her braided hair and white dress, she seemed to glow in the moonlight.”

“I left him in his wheelchair, staring sadly into the fireplace. I wondered how many times he’d sat here, waiting for heroes that never came back.”

“Genius does not excuse evil.”

“Fish Ponies! I put them on the ceiling!"

-Tyson”

“I remembered the last time Annabeth and I had parted ways, when she'd given me a kiss for luck in Mount St. Helens. This time, all I got was the hat.”

“Good fighting with you, Seaweed Brain."
Ditto.”

“We were just looking at maps…”

“that's me. ancient history."

[Poseidon to Paul]”

“I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?"
"Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple."
"But… you did something nice. Why?"
He raised and eyebrow. "I am nice! I simple ooze niceness, Perry Johansson. Haven't you noticed?”

“Getting something and having the wits to use it… those are two different things.”

“Mrs. O' Leary is my pet. I couldn't let you stick a sword in her rump, now, could I? That might've scared her.”

“You hit the Lord of The Titans with a blue plastic hairbrush.”

“You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you. - Pan”

“But you'll be killed!"
"I'll be fine. Besides, we've got no choice."
Annabeth glared at me like she was going to punch me. And then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me.”

“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”