You know how teachers tell you the magic word is please? That’s not true. The magic word is puke. It will get you out of class faster than anything else.
-- Percy (Chapter 1 paragraph 5, Page 6)

Importance: Percy makes up an excuse to leave class so he can help Clarisse who is outside battling large ravens.

They’re minor gods. . . Phobos is fear. Deimos is terror. . . . Deimos is bigger and uglier, I guess, He’s good at freaking out entire crowds. Phobos is more like person. He can get inside your head.
-- Clarisse (Chapter 1 paragraph 7, Page 12)

Importance: Clarisse is telling Percy what he’s up against in the battle with her half-brothers. Clarisse’s evil half-brothers, Phobos and Deimos, were trying to get Clarisse in trouble with their father Ares. Percy was trying to help Clarisse get Ares’ chariot back to his temple before he discovered it was missing. Her brothers were bent on stopping them. They conjured up the sea...