" And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.
"
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

""Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can."

Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?"

Zoe blinked. "Yes. What is funny?"

"Nothing," Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. "I could use some dam french fries."

Even Thalia smiled at that. "And I need to use the dam restroom."......I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at me. "I do not understand."

"I want to use the dam water fountain," Grover said.

"And..." Thalia tried to catch her breath. "I want to buy a dam t-shirt.""
— Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse)

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

"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

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

""Whats up, Seaweed Brain?""
— Rick Riordan

"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

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

"Be the change you want to see in the world"
— Mahatma Ghandi

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye."
— Cathy Guisewite

""Can you surf really well, then?"
I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh.
"Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried."

He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat-flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.)"
— Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse)

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

""I'm afraid not." Haded sighed. "My son here convinced me that perhaps i should prioritize my list of enemies." he glared at me with distaste. "As much as I dislike certain upstart demigods, it would not do for Olympus to fall. i would miss bickering with my siblings. And if there is one thing we agree on-it is that you were a TERRIBLE father." "
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

""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)

"Annabeth hesitated. "Then we'll all go."
"No," I said. "It's too dangerous. If they got hold of Nico, or Rachel for that matter, Kronos could use them.You stay here and guard them."
What I didn't say: I was also worried about Annabeth. I didn't trust what she would do if she saw Luke again. He had fooled her and manipulated her too many times before.
"Percy, don't," Rachel said. "Don't go up there alone."
"I'll be quick," I promised. "I won't do anything stupid."
Annabeth took her Yankees cap out of her pocket. "At least take this. And be carful."
"Thanks." I remembered the last time Annabeth and I had parted ways, when she'd given me a kiss for luck in Mount St. Helens. This time, all I got was the hat."
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

"Humans don't exist on the same level as immortals. They can't even be hurt by our weapons. But you, Percy--you are part god, part human. You live in both worlds. You can be harmed by both, and you can affect both. That's what makes heroes so special. You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal. Monsters never die. They are reborn from the chaos and barbarism that is always bubbling beneath civilization, the very stuff that makes Kronos stronger. They must be defeated again and again, kept at bay. Heroes embody that struggle. You fight the battles humanity must win, every generation, in order to stay human.

-Chiron" "
— Rick Riordan (The Sea of Monsters)

"She'd also called me brave... unless she was talking to the catfish.

-Percy Jackson"
— Rick Riordan

"People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed. "
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

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

""I was wishing I'd bought some of that Camp Half Blood orange thermal underwear..." ?!?!"
— Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse)

""Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!" "
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

"It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one."
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

"Poseidon: very well! it shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works.

Percy: i am praying. I'm talking to you, right?

Poseidon: oh..... yes. good point. Amphitrite- incoming!"
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

"The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before.Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid".

~Percy "
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

"And so...hypothetically, if these two people liked each other, what would it take to get the stupid guy to kiss the girl, huh?

~Rachel"
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

"...Percy Jackson? Isn't that the guy who wrote Twilight?"
— Swiftfire's dad

"Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die."
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

""I can't get through the year without getting kicked out or blowing something up."
-Percy Jackson" "
— Rick Riordan (The Demigod Files)

"Heck Hades hath no fury like a Percy Jackson Geek scorned."
— Nightshade!

"Jumping out a window five hundred feet aboveground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck."
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

"Wisdom is Key!"
— Athen~Rick Riordin

"Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned.

"That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there."

"Which one is me?" I asked.

"The little deformed one," Zoe suggested.

"Oh, shut up." "
— Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse)

"Mad hatter: how is a raven like a writing desk?
*squabble*
Alice: so how IS a raven like a writing desk?
Mad Hatter: I haven't the slightest idea."
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

"I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush." "
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

"I told Tantalus to go chase a doughnut. "
— Rick Riordan (The Sea of Monsters)

"I found God
On the corner of First and Amistad
Where the west
Was all but won
All alone
Smoking his last cigarette
I said, "Where you been?"
He said, "Ask anything".

Where were you
When everything was falling apart?
All my days
Were spent by the telephone
It never rang
And all I needed was a call
It never came
To the corner of First and Amistad

Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lyin' on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, you found me

In the end
Everyone ends up alone
Losing her
The only one who's ever known
Who I am
Who I'm not, who I wanna be
No way to know
How long she will be next to me
[ The Fray Lyrics are found on www.songlyrics.com ]

Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lyin' on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, you found me

Early morning
The city breaks
I've been callin'
For years and years and years and years
And you never left me no messages
Ya never send me no letters
You got some kinda nerve
Taking all my world

Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lyin' on the floor
Where were you? Where were you?
Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lyin' on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, you found me
Why'd you have to wait?
To find me, to find me"
— The Fray You Found Me

""You're Dionysus," I said. "The god of wine."
Mr. D rolled his eyes. "What do they say these days, Grover? Do the children say 'Well duh!'?"
"Y-yes, Mr. D."
"Then, well, duh! Percy Jackson. Did you think I was Aphrodite, perhaps?"
"You're a god."
"Yes, child."
"A god. You." "
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

""I say hello to the poodle, you say hello to the poodle."

-- Annabeth "
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

"Our nannas are losers.


-Junie B. Jones"
— Barbara Park

"Nature offers us a thousand simple pleasers- Plays of light and color, fragrance in the air, the sun's warmth on skin and muscle, the audible rhythm of life's stir and push- for the price of merely paying attention. What joy! But how unwilling or unable many of us are to pay this price in an age when manufactured sources of stimulation and pleasure are everywhere at hand. For me, enjoying nature's pleasures takes conscious choice, a choice to slow down to seed time or rock time, to still the clamoring ego, to set aside plans and busyness, and to simply to be present in my body, to offer myself up.


Respond to the above quote. Pay special attention to each of your five senses as you describe your surroundings. Also, you need to incorporate at least one metaphor and smile in your descriptions."
— Lorraine Anderson, Sisters of earth

"The warm bittersweet smell of clean Negro welcomed us as we entered the churchyard-Hearts of Love hairdressing mingled with asafoetida, snuff, Hoyt's Cologne, Brown's Mule, peppermint, and lilac talcum."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"With her braided hair and white dress, she seemed to glow in the moonlight. "
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

"With her braided hair and white dress, she seemed to glow in the moonlight. "
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

"'No, thanks,' said Harry. 'The toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it - it might be sick.' Then he ran, before Dudley could work our what he'd said. "
— J.K. Rowling

"They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat.
'Get the mail, Dudley,' said Uncle Vernon from behind his paper.
'Make Harry get it.'
'Get the mail, Harry.'
'Make Dudley get it.'
'Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley.'"
— J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"'Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me,' said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him. "
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"Really, Rachel looked like a sun, bright and exuding energy, holding us two moons in a parallel orbit by the sheer force of her will. "
— Maggie Stiefvater (Shiver)