“There has to be a way,” she said.
“Don’t Amazons have ... special powers or something?”
“No more than other demigods,” Hylla said.
“We can die, just like any mortal.
There is a group of archers who follow the goddess Artemis.
They are often mistaken for Amazons, but the Hunters forsake
the company of men in exchange for almost endless life.
We Amazons — we would prefer to live life to the fullest.
We love, we fight, we die.”
~~ page 370
He’d seen the Underworld firsthand.
He had felt what it was like to sit forever doing nothing,
just regretting your mistakes.
He’d looked up at those creepy goldmasks on the judges of the dead
and realized that he would stand before them someday, maybe very soon.
~~ page 388
“Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god.
You mortals don’t know how lucky you are.”
~~ page 406
Mars shrugged. “Every hero has a fatal flaw.
Percy Jackson? He’s too loyal to his friends.
He can’t give them up, not for anything.
He was told that, years ago.
And someday soon, he’s going to face a sacrifice he can’t make.
Without you, Frank — without your sense of duty — he’s going to fail.
The whole war will go sideways, and Gaea will destroy our world.”
Frank shook his head. He couldn’t hear this.
“War is a duty,” Mars continued. “The only real choice
is whether you accept it, and what you fight for.”
~~ page 407
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