Harsh

About moving to the city after growing up in wheat country: there's not enough space. It's nice having some trees and hills, but the sky is too hidden, there's a definite lack of wind, and it's difficult to find isolation with nature.

"There's a court for dead people?" . . .

"Sometimes they look at a life and decide that person needs a special reward--the Fields of Elysium. Sometimes they decide on punishment. But most people, well, they just lived. Nothing special, good or bad, so they go to the Asphodel Fields."

"And do what?"

Grover said, "Imagine standing in a wheat field in Kansas. Forever."

"Harsh!"

--Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

*Transcribed from the audio, so punctuation and such may be off.