Percy Jackson And The Olympians Quotes
"Honest truth? Most of the time, being a demigod blows chunks. Anybody who tells you different is trying to recruit you for a quest."
"You’d be amazed how many teachers, administrators, and other school staff are monsters in disguise. Or maybe you wouldn’t be amazed."
"The idea of her going off to California without me kept me up at night. . . ."
"After all I’d been through, it might’ve been too early to judge on that last one."
"I knew she was only trying to help me because my dad had ordered her to. Still, it wasn’t the kind of news I wanted to deal with on a Monday morning. Or ever."
"When you’ve helped each other through Tartarus, the deepest and most horrifying place in the universe, and you’ve come out alive and stronger than you were to begin with . . . well, that isn’t a relationship you could ever replace, or should ever want to."
"We were too powerful and unpredictable. We tended to start major wars, instigate natural disasters, create bad sitcoms . . . whatever."
"I’ve never had any trouble leaving. These families . . . they come and go. They don’t seem to be stuck in time."
"But when you have no downtime in your life ever . . . boring starts to sound pretty great."
"Nostalgia is the doorway back to youth. I’m just showing them how to open it."
"I’ve always had a baseline jumpiness, but this was worse."
"You are a lot of things, Percy. But helpless isn’t one of them."
"All that buttering up just so I’ll do my chores?"
"Knowledge has value. The more valuable, the more it has to be earned."
"Thinking about you as a toddler makes me feel hopeful."
"But mark my words: if you offend Iris the way you offended me, you will not escape so easily."
"I figured I’ll be wrestling with you my whole life... And I’m okay with that. I just wanted you to know."
"Getting older might be scary and difficult... But if you grew older with people you loved, wasn’t that better than any other alternative?"
"If I were looking for someone who could guess my diabolic master plan so I didn’t have to do the standard villain monologue, I would have started with Annabeth, too."
"You will bring it back. Good luck. Don’t die."
"Sometimes, though, books are the only place you can find information, so you have to risk the headache."
"You think eternal youth and immortality make him the victim here?"
"Isn’t this the same nymph who gave you the info on Washington Square Park?"
"Let's not make that comparison. No dead bodies today, okay?"
"Going okay? Me? No monster fights this week. Unless you count freshman essays on Romeo and Juliet."
"Why would anyone? To become immortal? To embarrass me? To become immortal so he can embarrass me forever? I don’t know."
"I figured I'd spent so much of my life plummeting downward, I'd be a shoo-in for first place."
"I’m really glad you’re happy. Of course I’m happy."
"I’m not going to say 6:30 A.M., and I definitely didn’t want to be awake then."
"It’s one thing being called the son of Poseidon. Getting noticed for being anything like my mom, though… that’s a compliment."
"Sometimes it’s the smallest waves that knock you off your feet."
"I’m going to make sure we both get to adulthood and have a chance to settle down—hopefully after having a lot of fun while we’re in college."
"I hate to break it to you, but I think I might love you."
"But you’re never alone, Seaweed Brain. We’ll always be here to help you."
"Every time… I feel like we’re tempting fate. Like eventually our luck will run out."
"Nothing is scarier than watching your friend struggle and not being able to help."
"All power has a price. Even being invisible."
"We’ll make it, right? I mean, if even your mom is on our side…"