The Titan's Curse Quotes
"Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed."
"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."
"Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy."
"Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding."
"Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing."
"You can't choose your parentage. But you can choose your legacy."
"It tasted like homemade brownie, dissolving in my mouth and sending a warm feeling through my whole body."
"I've got almost all of them, plus their holographic cards!"
"This is the average age of my Hunters, and all young maidens for whom I am patron, before they go astray."
"Grow up. Become smitten with boys. Become silly, preoccupied, insecure. Forget themselves."
"Eternity with Artemis?" He heaved a big sigh. "Yeah."
"Everybody thinks you're the lamest god card, I totally think your powers are sweet!"
"Your help is on the way. It's all part of the plan. In the meantime, try not to die."
"I have a question," I said a little louder. "I need to know about Annabeth. How can I save her?"
"You need to do whatever you think you have to."
"Sometimes, like in Blackjack's case, they kind of adopt me."
"I looked back at my comfortable bed... I guess I had a feeling, even then, that I wasn't coming back to my cabin for a long, long time."
"Being on a flying horse, skimming over the waves at a hundred miles an hour with the wind in my hair and the sea spray in my face—hey, it beats waterskiing any day."
"I should've been blind, too, this deep in the water at night, but I could see the heat from living forms, and the cold of the currents."
"I hated those things. It was bad enough they drowned porpoises and dolphins, but they also occasionally caught mythological animals."
"It's okay, Bessie," I said. Don't ask me why I started calling her that. It just seemed like a good cow name."
"Here I was rescuing baby monsters, but I couldn't save my friend."
"I ran, putting on Annabeth's cap. As the sun came up, I turned invisible."
"The worst of it was: when he turned toward me, I recognized his face."
"The fact that he'd let me go meant he really believed we stood a fair chance of crashing and burning on this quest."
"The General was the real deal. He didn't need a uniform. He was a born commander."
"We will be unstoppable. Behold, my ultimate killing machines."
"I do not like it, but there is no changing fate. You are the fifth quest member. And we are not leaving anyone behind."
"Many mortals will fight for any cause as long as they are paid."
"Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters."
"If it weren't for dreams, I wouldn't know half the things I know about the future. They're better than Olympus tabloids."
"The meaning is only clear through the search."
"I almost joined them," she admitted. "Luke, Annabeth, and I ran into them once, and Zoe tried to convince me. She almost did, but…"
"F.D.R. was not the last president. That was about seventy years ago."
"Oh, Artemis. Please. Talk about a hopeless case."
"Ah, you even dream about her! That's so cute!"
"Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?"
"Not knowing is half the fun," Aphrodite said. "Exquisitely painful, isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you?"
"You're so cute. I wish all my daughters could break the heart of a boy as nice as you."
"Forget them and Artemis and the monster. That's not important. You just concentrate on finding and saving Annabeth."
"Don't worry, Percy," Aphrodite said. "The Hunters are your enemies."
"I'd love to kill you, seriously," Ares said. "But see, I got a situation. Word on Olympus is that you might start the biggest war in history."
"I'm… I'm okay," Grover said after a moment. But he clearly wasn't okay at all.
"It's been nice adventuring with you guys," Grover said, his voice trembling.
"We can make it," Grover said confidently, despite the dangerous path ahead.
"After a brief discussion, we agreed that we needed to figure out just what this mystery monster was."
"You know him?" Thalia asked. "My mother was a sea goddess. Yes, I know him. Unfortunately, he is never very hard to find. Just follow the smell."
"You will know him. He will smell… different."
"Do not let go. Force him to tell thee about the monster."
"I don't want money," I said as he fought. "I'm a half-blood! I want information."
"How could anyone hurt him?" I said. "He's harmless."
"But there is power in killing innocence. Terrible power."
"You have no friends here, daughter of Zeus," the girl said. "Only enemies. Go back."
"No friends here," I muttered. "Not very welcoming."
"The apples of immortality," Thalia said. "Hera's wedding gift from Zeus."
"Believe me," Zoe said, "if you had dragon breath, you would chew eucalyptus too."
"I used to feed thee by hand," Zoe said. "Do you still like lamb's meat?"
"No! It is nothing. I was saying… in the first war, Othrys was blasted to pieces."
"It moves in the same way that Olympus moves. It always exists on the edges of civilization."
"But the fact that it is here, on this mountain, is not good."
"That is the General's decision, Thalia. But it's good to see you again."
"So, even the stupidest of heroes can finally figure something out."
"You're not going to hurt Zoe. I won't let you."
"An immortal does not fight a mere mortal directly. It is beneath our dignity."
"Our fathers have done nothing for us. They have no right to rule the world!"
"Wise counsel is not always popular, but I spoke the truth. You are dangerous."