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

“Vitellius would've given Percy an hour-long lecture on the subject, probably wi…”

“Why did it have to be so hard? Why couldn't there be a happily-ever-after ride-…”

“The last time I'd seen the Minotaur, he'd been wearing nothing but his tighty w…”

“She tied her blond hair back with a strip of denim torn from her pants leg, and…”