"You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought."

"To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."

"Nobody minds having what is too good for them."

"Angry people are not always wise."

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"It's such a happiness when good people get together."