Ameliaannabeth&percysittin in a tree*'s quotes

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""The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important."

"It was probably important to her.""
— Rick Riordan (The Sea of Monsters)

tags: cadmus, died, europa, fleece, golden, humor, jackson, percy
92 people liked it

"Fortunately, we did most of our athletic stuff inside, so we didn't have to jog through Tribeca looking like a bunch of boot-camp hippie children."
— Rick Riordan

tags: humor
27 people liked it

"Rachel: "They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb."
Annabeth: "Was it hard?""
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

92 people liked it

"I stared at him (Dionysus). 'You're...you're married? But I thought you got in trouble for chasing a wood nymph---'"
— Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse)

20 people liked it

"You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search."
— Rick Riordan

tags: art, artist, painting, poem, poet, poetry
115 people liked it

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: family, friends, parties, social
1,010 people liked it

"Yay! Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!

Tyson"
— Rick Riordan

166 people liked it

"'Look, I need to tell you something,' I continued. The words came stumbling out of me. 'I couldnt stand it if...I dont want you to---'
'Percy?' she said. 'You look like you're going to be sick.'
And that's how I felt."
— Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse)

22 people liked it

""Stop running, you fools!" Kronos yelled. "Stand and ACKK!"
That last part was because a panicked Hyperborean giant stumbled backwards and sat on top of him. The lord ot time dissaperaed under a giant blue butt. "
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

tags: blue, butt, giant, hyperborean, kronos, lord, time
43 people liked it

"All we have is to decide what to do with the time that is given to us. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: adventuring, death, screenplay
805 people liked it

"What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear?"
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

22 people liked it

"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy
154 people liked it

"We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: books, philosophy
180 people liked it

"The only thing you have to decide is what to do with time that is given to you."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King)

tags: destiny, fate, life, movie
195 people liked it

"Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are."
— Lloyd Alexander (The Castle of Llyr)

33 people liked it

"Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart."
— Lloyd Alexander (The Book of Three)

44 people liked it

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
4,876 people liked it

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

tags: choices
3,106 people liked it

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: dreams, life
2,183 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,750 people liked it

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, religion, sun
2,661 people liked it

"(The Christian) does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, god, religion
1,162 people liked it

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: children-s, entertainment, stories
928 people liked it

"I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia."
— C.S. Lewis (The Silver Chair)

tags: hell, love, safe
436 people liked it

"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
— C.S. Lewis (The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader")

tags: first-sentence
172 people liked it

"It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out."
— C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters)

tags: human-nature, reality, temptation
65 people liked it

"Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape."
— C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters)

tags: hell
58 people liked it

"That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads."
"That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy."
— C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian)

69 people liked it

"Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up they were so used to quarreling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently."
— C.S. Lewis (The Horse and His Boy)

30 people liked it

"You always get weirdos like Edward who seem to attract women for some reason. If Edward wasn’t a fictional character and you met him in reality he is like one of those guys who would probably be an axe murderer or something."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

tags: twilight
5,705 people liked it

""I am never, ever, going to make things easy for you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it." - Annabeth"
— Rick Riordan

tags: annabeth, percy
46 people liked it

"The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she (Annabeth) was alive."-Percy"
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

54 people liked it

"I thought maybe he was seeing another tree. - Juniper"
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

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"You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you.--Pan "
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

15 people liked it

"'It's him,' I said. 'Typhon.'
I was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like 'No, that's our huge friend Leroy! He's going to help us!'"
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

56 people liked it

"I found myself staring at her, which was stupid since I'd seen her a billion times. Still, she seemed so much more mature. It was kind of intimidating. I mean, sure, she'd always been cute, but she was starting to be seriously beautiful." "
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

39 people liked it

"The last time I'd seen the Minotaur, he'd been wearing nothing but his tighty whities. I don't know why. Maybe he'd been shaken out of bed to chase me."
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

40 people liked it

"People who claim they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of. "
— Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)

248 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,815 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,695 people liked it

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: body, soul
3,610 people liked it

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movies
2,308 people liked it

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: learning, reading, seuss
2,152 people liked it

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: life
1,985 people liked it

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word "darkness" on the walls of his cell."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, religion
509 people liked it

"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobodies worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss."
— Nick Hornby (High Fidelity)

tags: music, sad
474 people liked it

"Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades."
— Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse)

292 people liked it

""What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War...Athena versus Poseidon?"

"I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you."

"Why?"

"Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?""
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

121 people liked it

"She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts."
— Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse)

tags: funny, humor
93 people liked it