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

by Rick Riordan

“Don’t say his name,” she warned. “Names have power.”

names are powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason.”

“Monsters don’t die, Percy. They can be killed. But they don’t die.”

I had become one with the plumbing.

But still, it was a little humiliating to be slower than a tree.

“I’ve been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain,”

She’d also called me brave…unless she was talking to the catfish.

“Why can’t you place a blessing like that on us?” I asked. “It only works on wild animals.” “So it would only affect Percy,” Annabeth reasoned.

“All those stations,” I told her, “and you turn on National Geographic. Are you insane?”

I'd do te same tbh

“For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across—hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.”

“You came here with it, little fool, thinking you could you threaten me!”

Even trad pub makes mistakes. It had a redundant "with" but it seem to have disappeared?! Or maybe I was hallucinating haha

I was going to start crying like a little kid.

You are a kid. You're only 12

Ares has strength. That’s all he has. Even strength has to bow to wisdom sometimes.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

Annabeth’s shroud was so beautiful—gray silk with embroidered owls—I told her it seemed a shame not to bury her in it.

The real world is where the monsters are. That’s where you learn whether you’re any good or not.