Percy Jackson and the Olympians Quotes

“Personally,” Mr. D continued, “I couldn’t care less, but congratulations. Also, I should tell you that we have a new camper today. Peter Johnson.” Chiron murmured something. “Er, Percy Jackson,” Mr. D corrected. “That’s right. Hurrah, and all that. Now run along to your silly campfire. Go on.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“Clarisse’s friends were all laughing, and I was trying to find the strength I’d used to fight the Minotaur, but it just wasn’t there. “Like he’s ‘Big Three’ material,” Clarisse said as she pushed me toward one of the toilets. “Yeah, right. Minotaur probably fell over laughing, he was so stupid looking.” Her friends snickered. Annabeth stood in the corner, watching through her fingers. Clarisse bent me over on my knees and started pushing my head toward the toilet bowl. It reeked like rusted pipes and, well, like what goes into toilets. I strained to keep my head up. I was looking at the scummy water, thinking, I will not go into that. I won’t. Then something happened. I felt a tug in the pit of my stomach. I heard the plumbing rumble, the pipes shudder. Clarisse’s grip on my hair loosened. Water shot out of the toilet, making an arc straight over my head, and the next thing I knew, I was sprawled on the bathroom tiles with Clarisse screaming behind me. I turned just as water blasted out of the toilet again, hitting Clarisse straight in the face so hard it pushed her down onto her butt. The water stayed on her like the spray from a fire hose, pushing her backward into a shower stall. She struggled, gasping, and her friends started coming toward her. But then the other toilets exploded, too, and six more streams of toilet water blasted them back. The showers acted up, too, and together all the fixtures sprayed the camouflage girls right out of the bathroom, spinning them around like pieces of garbage being washed away. As soon as they were out the door, I felt the tug in my gut lessen, and the water shut off as quickly as it had started. The entire bathroom was flooded. Annabeth hadn’t been spared. She was dripping wet, but she hadn’t been pushed out the door. She was standing in exactly the same place, staring at me in shock.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“I shouldn’t have trusted you.” His voice broke. “You lied to me. My nightmares were right!”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“I GET A NEW ENEMY FOR CHRISTMAS”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“Demigods could understand Latin and Greek. Leo could speak Creak and Squeak.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians

“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. “Hey!” I protested. “Kidding,” she said.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“We made it out,” Zoë said. “Thank the gods.” But apparently the gods didn’t want to be thanked.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“WE VISIT THE JUNK YARD OF THE GODS”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“He played “YMCA,” and the strawberry plants started going crazy, wrapping around our feet like they were trying to strangle us. I guess I couldn’t blame them.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“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.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“Twenty, thirty, forty feet. The pressure wasn’t uncomfortable. I’d never tried to push it—to see if there was a limit to how deep I could dive. I knew most regular humans couldn’t go past two hundred feet without crumpling like an aluminum can. I should’ve been blind, too, this deep in the water at night, but I could see the heat from living forms, and the cold of the currents. It’s hard to describe. It wasn’t like regular seeing, but I could tell where everything was. As I got closer to the bottom, I saw three hippocampi—fish-tailed horses—swimming in a circle around an overturned boat. The hippocampi were beautiful to watch. Their fish tails shimmered in rainbow colors, glowing phosphorescent. Their manes were white, and they were galloping through the water the way nervous horses do in a thunderstorm. Something was upsetting them. I got closer and saw the problem. A dark shape—some kind of animal—was wedged halfway under the boat and tangled in a fishing net, one of those big nets they use on trawlers to catch everything at once. I hated those things. It was bad enough they drowned porpoises and dolphins, but they also occasionally caught mythological animals. When the nets got tangled, some lazy fishermen would just cut them loose and let the trapped animals die. Apparently this poor creature had been mucking around on the bottom of Long Island Sound and had somehow gotten itself tangled in the net of this sunken fishing boat. It had tried to get out and managed to get even more hopelessly stuck, shifting the boat in the process. Now the wreckage of the hull, which was resting against a big rock, was teetering and threatening to collapse on top of the tangled animal. The hippocampi were swimming around frantically, wanting to help but not sure how. One was trying to chew the net, but hippocampi teeth just aren’t meant for cutting rope. Hippocampi are really strong, but they don’t have hands, and they’re not (shhh) all that smart. Free”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“Most Yancy field”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“The surfer screamed something about bad mushrooms and paddled away from us as fast as he could.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“jugs”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“We can’t let anyone know. I don’t think anyone realizes that Nico is a—” “A son of Hades,” Annabeth said.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“Nico,” I said. “I tried. But Bianca gave herself up to save the rest of us. I told her not to. But she—” “You promised!”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“You promised you would protect her,” Nico said. He might as well have stabbed me with a rusty dagger.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“There was a knock on the door, and Nico di Angelo came huffing into the parlor, his cheeks bright red from the cold. He was smiling, but he looked around anxiously. “Hey! Where’s…where’s my sister?”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“For some strange reason, I found myself thinking about Hoover Dam, and the odd mortal girl I’d run into there, Rachel Elizabeth Dare.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“I said, “I, uh, was thinking we got interrupted at Westover Hall. And…I think I owe you a dance.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“She studied me with concern. She touched the new streak of gray in my hair that matched hers exactly—our painful souvenir from holding Atlas’s burden.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“I hope the Council’s decisions prove wise,” Athena said. “But I will be watching, Percy Jackson. I do not approve of your friendship with my daughter. I do not think it wise for either of you. And should you begin to waver in your loyalties…”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom…that is very hard indeed.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“Athena looked almost sorry for me. “Kronos knows your flaw, even if you do not. He knows how to study his enemies. Think, Percy. How has he manipulated you? First, your mother was taken from you. Then your best friend, Grover. Now my daughter, Annabeth.” She paused, disapproving. “In each case, your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos’s traps.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“A year ago, Annabeth and I had had a talk about fatal flaws. Every hero had one. Hers, she said, was pride. She believed she could do anything…like holding up the world, for instance. Or saving Luke.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“Just bear that in mind, Percy. Even the bravest can fall.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“But you’re a hero. You will be the one of the prophecy.” “Great,” I muttered.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“As thickheaded as he is, Ares has a point.” “Right!” Ares said. “Hey, wait a minute. Who you callin’—”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“It is unfortunate that my father, Zeus, and my uncle, Poseidon, chose to break their oath not to have more children. Only Hades kept his word, a fact that I find ironic.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III

“Next to him sat a beautiful woman with silver hair braided over one shoulder and a dress that shimmered colors like peacock feathers. The Lady Hera.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Books I-III