„Hazel squinted. “How far?””Just over the river and through the woods.”Percy raised an eyebrow. “Seriously? To Grandmother’s house we go?”Frank cleared his throat. “Yeah, anyway.“

— Rick Riordan

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„Announced by all the trumpets of the skyArrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,Seems nowhere to alight: the whited airHides hills and woods, the river and the heaven,And veils the farm-house at the garden's end.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„They're Lares. House gods.""House gods," Percy said. "Like… smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods?“
— Rick Riordan
„I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson