People have come and gone. Armies have amassed and dispersed. Empires have risen and fallen. Heroes have lived and died. Some have been reborn, some have achieved the Isle of the Blest, and throughout it all, you still sit in your thrones, pretending to be all high and mighty while you know that it isn't true. Get involved with your children. Before you go all 'Ancient Law' this and 'Ancient Law' that, remember, who created the Ancient Laws? Not me, or I would've nullified them the moment I learned about them. It's you, Olympians, who have created the Ancient Laws. It's you, Olympians, who have followed and broken the Ancient Laws, again and again, and again. Even if the Ancient Laws didn't exist, I would believe that you would still sit there in your thrones, even higher and mightier.
-Percy Jackson, "The Big Five"