The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)

by Rick Riordan

My nightmare started like this.

Besides, my mom had made me promise not to use deadly weapons in the apartment after I’d swung a javelin the wrong way and taken out her china cabinet.

Only one more day to go. Surely even I couldn’t mess that up. As usual, I didn’t have a clue how wrong I was.

I think it’s her way of saying anything is possible.

I wouldn’t be seeing home for a long, long time.

I couldn’t tell you what color his eyes were, because I could never make myself look higher than his crooked teeth.

Percy you could’ve DIED

How could I promise a kid like him that anything would be fine?

I’d never admit it to her, but she was smarter than me, even if she was annoying sometimes.

I wanted to tell him he was taking the dodgeball game way too seriously,

Annabeth punched him in the nose and knocked him flat. “And you,” she told him, “lay off my friend.”

I’d missed Annabeth probably more than I wanted to admit.

You are pretty.”

Tyson seemed fascinated by Annabeth’s blond hair. He tried to touch it, but she smacked his hand away.

Mythologically speaking, if there’s anything I hate worse than trios of old ladies, it’s bulls.

I knew with horrible certainty that my friend had just been turned into a column of ashes.

“BAD COW!”

Thalia’s tree was dying. Someone had poisoned it.

Somebody had messed with my favorite place in the world,

“Percy, you must promise me that you will not act rashly.

Lol nice try

He looked…fractured. Angry and frustrated and hungry all at the same time.

He was too innocent to understand how much they were making fun of him, how cruel people were. But I got it.

I admit—I was angry at my dad. I felt like being his son was now a joke.

The only person at camp who had no problem with Tyson was Beckendorf from the Hephaestus cabin.

Justice for Beckendorf

People always compared me to Luke.

AHHH. Like, I love foils just as a literary concept, but this is one of my favorite actual examples. I don't know, just something about having the characters point out the similarities in-universe, along with the way the series' final prophecy plays out, just gets to me.

“It is okay. I will be a good monster. Then you will not have to be mad.”

felt like I was dying slowly, right along with Thalia’s tree.

It didn’t fit him very well.

Yes, Percy, because this is definitely what you should be paying attention to

“My first empathy link must’ve worked then.

Just another really cool thing in the PJO series that gets dropped in HOO with no explanation.... Though I suppose there IS an explanation for why the Curse of Achilles gets dropped, but as it's a stupid-ass explanation, I'm electing to ignore it

Our emotions are connected now. If I die…” “Don’t tell me, I’ll die too.” “Oh, well, perhaps not. You might live for years in a vegetative state. But, uh, it would be a lot better if you got me out of here.”

WHAT. HAPPENED. TO. GROVER. WHEN. PERCY. WAS. IN. TARTARUS.

I wanted to show the others…well, I wasn’t sure what, exactly. That Tyson wasn’t such a bad guy? That I wasn’t ashamed of being seen with him in public? Maybe that they hadn’t hurt me with all their jokes and name-calling?

:(

For some reason sugar and caffeine always calmed down my hyperactive brain.

Does truth have a moral?”

“Young people don’t always do what they’re told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.

“Perhaps because I hope that you can save many people on this quest, Percy.

Luke can’t be saved.

you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.

May the gods go with you.”

The original Perseus was one of the only heroes in the Greek myths who got a happy ending.

Or so she says. I'm personally on team "Sally knows 'Perseus' means 'to destroy' and wanted to watch the chaos that ensued"

whenever Annabeth talked about the time she’d spent with them, I kind of felt…I don’t know. Uncomfortable? No. That’s not the word. The word was jealous.

The spirits on the losing side of every war owe a tribute to Ares. That’s their curse for being defeated.

yikes

The last thing I remembered was sinking in a burning sea, knowing that Tyson was gone forever, and wishing I were able to drown.

But every time heroes learn the future, they try to change it, and it never works.”

The first step is admitting that you’re not happy the way you are.”

“A guinea pig,”

So she turned him into a guinea pig but he retains his human brain? I mean, I know it's because this entire series is told solely through Percy's POV, but still. It's a choice

“My mother is Hecate, the goddess of magic.

Also, why change Circe's backstory? I mean, she's already a real mythological sorceress, so why give her a new mother?

I’d finally found something I was really good at.

Leave it to me and Aegis.”

Why would Thalia, a daughter of Zeus, have Athena's shield. Annabeth is RIGHT THERE

“They say the Sirens sing the truth about what you desire. They tell you things about yourself you didn’t even realize.

My fatal flaw is hubris.”

I mean... did you really not know this until now? Because I clocked it pretty much immediately

Once, I lost my grip and I found myself dangling by one hand from a ledge fifty feet above the rocky surf.