"I'm a terrible prince. I should put my kingdom first and everything else second, but your first. I want you by my side every second, but I know I would crumble if I lost you. -- Geric"
— Shannon Hale (Enna Burning)

"The tinkle of wind chimes announcing the return of our fairy guests made us both look up. Our chance to be alone was going to be shorter than either of us had hoped.
I sighed and brushed an errant dragon scale from Eadric’s tunic. “Someday when we have lots of time, remind me to tell you what you mean to me.”
Eadric tilted my head back so he could gaze into my eyes. “I can tell you what you mean to me with just one word.”
“Let me guess,” I said, smiling up at him. “Maybe I make you happy because you no longer have to enter kissing contests to find the best kisser? Do I bring excitement into your life because I can wisk you away to exotic lands on my magic carpet? Or do you find me delightful because I can conjure food whenever you’re hungry?”
“No, that’s not. . . Wait, what was that last one?”
I laughed and shook my head. “Never mind. So tell me in one word, what do I mean to you?”
“That’s easy,” said Eadric. “Everything!”
"
— E.D. Baker (No Place for Magic)

"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

"... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it."
— Shannon Hale (The Goose Girl)

"All I've ever wanted was to be near you."
— Shannon Hale (Enna Burning)

"I know I would crumble if I lost you."
— Shannon Hale (Enna Burning)

"I, Geric-Sinath of Gerhard, declare that you're beautiful and you're perfect and I'll slay any man who tries to take you from my side. Goose girl, may I kiss you?"
— Shannon Hale (The Goose Girl)

"There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears [p. 173]."
— Shannon Hale (Princess Academy)

"Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice."
— Shannon Hale

"“Isi, I’m trying to say that you’ve been… no, you’re so, you’re–” He stopped.
“You are,” he said. His hand found hers, and he held her finger tightly, as though he did not dare to do any more than hold her one hand, and look at her, and breathe deeply.
"
— Shannon Hale (The Goose Girl)

"Go on, son, you're not doing me any good by bleeding."
— Shannon Hale (The Goose Girl)

""No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed.'" "
— Megan Whalen Turner (The King of Attolia)

"'The Basilius was a prince of his people, what we call a king now,' Teleus explained. 'That one'- he nodded towards the closed door- 'will rule more than just Attolia before he is done. He is an Annux, a king of kings.'"
— Megan Whalen Turner (The King of Attolia)

"'Before you make a decision," he said, "I want you to know that I love you.'"
— Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

"Why did you come if not to murder my king?"
"I came to steal his magus."
"You can't," said the magus in question.
"I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand."
— Megan Whalen Turner (The Queen of Attolia)

"Are you badly hurt?"
"Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you."
— Megan Whalen Turner (The King of Attolia)

""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)

"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)

"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)

"You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed."
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

"Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong."
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

"Almost everything strange washes up near Miami. "
— Rick Riordan

""Something was wrong with Luke," Annabeth muttered, poking at the fire with her knife. "Did you notice the way he was acting?"

"He looked pretty pleased to me," I said. "Like he'd spent a nice day torturing heroes."

"That's not true! There was something wrong with him. He looked...nervous. He told his monsters to spare me. He wanted to tell me something."

"Probably, 'Hi, Annabeth! Sit here with me and watch while I tear your friends apart. It'll be fun!'""
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

"She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did sokmethign that surprised me even more. She kissed me.
"Be careful seaweed brain." She said putting on her invisiable cap and disappearing.
I probably would have sat there all day, trying to remember my name, but then the sea demons came."
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

"With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.

-Nico"
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

""Dance you guys!" Thalia ordered. "You look stupid just standing there."
I looked nervously at Annabeth, then at the groups of girls who were roaming the gym.
"Well?" Annabeth asked.
"Um, who should I ask?"
She punched me in the gut. "Me, Seaweed Brain."
"Oh. Oh right.""
— Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse)

"Percy: "Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right?"
Annabeth: "Come back alive, Seaweed Brain. Then we'll see.""
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

"Annabeth: "Hey, Seaweed Brain."

Percy: "Will you stop calling me that?"

Annabeth: "You know you love it.""
— Rick Riordan (The Demigod Files)

"Percy (to Annabeth): "If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick you."
Silena: "Awww . . . Percy, that is so sweet!"
Annabeth: "Shut up, Silena.""
— Rick Riordan (The Demigod Files)

"We only came close to dying six or seven times, which i thought was pretty good. Once, I lst my grip and found myself dangling by one hand from a ledge fifty feet above the rocky surf. But I found another handhold and kept climbing. A minute later Annabeth hit a slippery patch of moss and her foot slipped. Fortunately, she found something else to put it against. Unfortunately, that something was my face.
"Sorry," she murrmured.
"S'okay," I grunted, though I'd never really wanted to know what Annabeth's sneaker tasted like."
— Rick Riordan (The Sea of Monsters)

"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)

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

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

"Wouldn't that put a twist in your toga?"
— Rick Riordan

"Before I could figure out how to apologize for being such an idiot, she tackled me with a hug, then pulled away just as quickly. "I'm glad you're not a guinea pig."
"Me, too." I hoped my face wasn't as red as it felt."
— Rick Riordan (The Sea of Monsters)

"'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)

"She glanced at the minotaur horn in my hands, then back at me. I imagined she was going to say, You killed a minotaur! or Wow, you're so awesome! or something like that.
Instead she said, "You drool when you sleep.""
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

"Afterward,i had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time."
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

""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)

""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)

"Race you to the road?" I said.
"You are so going to lose." She (Annabeth) took off down Half-Blood Hill and I sprinted after her.
For once, I didn't look back."
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

""Percy, you're a brave guy," [Annabeth] said. "Just take the compliment. I swear, is it so hard?""
— Rick Riordan (The Demigod Files)

"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)

"Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, "Can I have your apple?""
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

""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)

"I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red."
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

"Seriously, who has monogrammed pajamas?
"
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

"my mother made a squeaking sound that might of been either "yes" or "help".
Poseidon took it as a yes and came in.

Paul was looking back and forth between us, trying to read our expressions. finally he stepped forward.
"hi, I'm Paul Blofis"

Poseidon raised an eyebrow and then shook his hand.
"blowfish did you say?"
"ah, no.Blofis , actually."

"oh i see," Poseidon said. "a shame. i quite like blowfish. i an Poseidon."
"Poseidon? that's an interesting name."
"yes, i like it. I've gone by other names, but i do prefer Poseidon."
"like the god of the sea."
"very much like that, yes"

"well!" my mother interrupted. "um, were so glad you could drop by. Paul, this is Percy's father."
"ah." Paul nodded, though he didn't look real pleased.
"i see."
Poseidon smiled at me. "there you are. my boy. and Tyson, hello, son!"
"daddy!"Tyson [shouted]...

Paul's jaw dropped. he stared at my mother. "Tyson is..."
"not mine," she promised. "its a long story."
— Rick Riordan

"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)

"We did all the standard camp numbers: "Down By The Aegean," "I Am My Own Great-Great-Great-Great Grandpa," "This Land is Minos's Land.""
— Rick Riordan (The Sea of Monsters)