Words worth keeping

Can you surf really well, then?"I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh."Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried."He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat-flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.)

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

The things you used to own, now they own you.

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Hope is a waking dream.

We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.