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21 " We need music," Nico said. " How's your singing?" " Um, no. Can't you just, like, tell it to open? You're the son of Hades and all." " It's not so easy. We need music." I was pretty sure if I tried to sing, all I would cause was an avalanche. "
22 " Husband, we talked about this," Persephone chided. " You can't go around incinerating every hero. Besides, he's brave. I like that." Hades rolled his eyes. " You liked that Orpheus fellow too. Look how well that turned out. "
23 " Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll. "
― Rick Riordan , The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
24 " Have you any idea how much my kingdom has swollen in this past century alone, how many subdivisions I've had to open?" I opened my mouth to respond, but Hades was on a roll now.More security ghouls," he moaned. " Traffic problems at the judgment pavilion. Double overtime for the staff. I used to be a rich god, Percy Jackson. I control all the precious metals under the earth. But my expenses!" Charon wants a pay raise," I blurted, just remembering the fact. As soon as I said it, I wished I could sew up my mouth.Don't get me started on Charon!" Hades yelled. " He's been impossible ever since he discovered Italian suits! Problems everywhere, and I've got to handle all of them personally. The commute time alone from the palace to the gates is enough to drive me insane! And the dead just keep arriving. No, godling. I need no help getting subjects! I did not ask for this war. "
25 " Hermes, we love you," Hades said, " but you rarely do as you're told, and you always do as you wish, and I haven't the slightest idea what you'd do with an immortality fruit, but I'm sure it would be both creative and disastrous. "
26 " Hades," Kronos growled. " I hope you and the ladies have come to pledge your allegiance." " I'm afraid not." Hades sighed. " My son here convinced me that perhaps I should prioritize my list of enemies." He glanced at me with distaste. " As much as I dislike certainupstart demigods, it would not do for Olympus to fall. I would miss bickering with my siblings. And if there is one thing we agree on—it is that you were a TERRIBLE father. "
27 " At the conclusion of Hollywood disaster movies and epics, time moves backward, piecing together like a jigsaw the elements that had come apart. The Titanic resumes its journey; Russell Crowe is reunited with his murdered wife and son. It's not a happy ending; it's a convention created for the purposes of an impossible sense of uplift at the end of death and tragedy: the happy beginning. Technology makes Hades unnecessary. "
― Amit Chaudhuri , Friend of My Youth
28 " I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death. "