The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)

by Rick Riordan

But if you recognize yourself in these pages—if you feel something stirring inside—stop reading immediately. You might be one of us.

You should’ve seen him run when it was enchilada day in the cafeteria.

Grover tried to calm me down. “It’s okay. I like peanut butter.”

“Well, half credit, Mr. Jackson. Zeus did indeed feed Kronos a mixture of mustard and wine, which made him disgorge his other five children, who, of course, being immortal gods, had been living and growing up completely undigested in the Titan’s stomach.

She told me he was rich and important,

i mean he is a god, so..

Maybe if I kick you in your soft spot, I thought. And make you sing soprano for a week.

“Oh, nobody much,” Grover said, obviously still miffed about the donkey comment. “Just the Lord of the Dead and a few of his blood-thirstiest minions.”

I had become one with the plumbing.

“Not unless they’re intentionally stocked in the woods or specially summoned by somebody on the inside.”

like luke.

The scar on his face made him look almost evil in the torchlight.

foreshadowing!!!

“Poseidon,” said Chiron. “Earthshaker, Stormbringer, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God.”

You shall be betrayed by one who calls you a friend.

he was betrayed by luke 😔

“Braccas meas vescimini!” I yelled. I wasn’t sure where the Latin came from. I think it meant “Eat my pants!”

latin bart simpson

The Gods Mount Olympus 600th Floor, Empire State Building New York, NY With best wishes, PERCY JACKSON

“I’m not saying hello to a pink poodle,” I said. “Forget it.” “Percy,” Annabeth said. “I said hello to the poodle. You say hello to the poodle.” The poodle growled. I said hello to the poodle.

I felt like drowning myself. The only problem: I was immune to drowning.

Another voice, one I almost recognized, answered at my shoulder. Nothing, my lord. He is as ignorant as the rest.

LUKE.

For a peace-loving herbivore, he looked downright murderous.

i want them dead too dont worry

We’d just released a zebra in Las Vegas.

You check in, and you stay forever.”

omg its like hotel california :0

We had been in the Lotus Casino for five days.

Sliding along beside me was a five-foot-long mako shark. But the thing wasn’t attacking. It was nuzzling me. Heeling like a dog.

i mean, sharks are the dogs of the sea

Thomas Jefferson,

does he have a miku binder?

I thought about that as we waited for the ghouls to pass. I pretended not to see Annabeth wipe a tear from her cheek as she listened to the mournful keening of Cerberus in the distance, longing for his new friend.

What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades’s underwear?

“Hey, Sally,” he yelled. “What about that meat loaf, huh?”

fuck you