Percy Jackson and the Olympians Boxed Set Quotes

“Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey – when you’re the son of Poseidon, you don’t have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood.”
― Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians Boxed Set

“Let us find the dam snack bar,’ Zoë said. ‘We should eat while we can.’ Grover cracked a smile. ‘The dam snack bar?’ Zoë blinked. ‘Yes. What is funny?’ ‘Nothing,’ Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. ‘I could use some dam French fries.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“I wanted to complain that, no, I wasn’t even close to prepared. I looked at Pandora’s jar and for the first time, I had an urge to open it. Hope seemed pretty useless to me right now. So many of my friends were dead. Rachel was cutting me off. Annabeth was angry with me. My parents were asleep down in the streets somewhere while a monster army surrounded the building. Olympus was on the verge of falling, and I’d seen so many cruel things the gods had done: Zeus destroying Maria di Angelo, Hades cursing the last Oracle, Hermes turning his back on Luke even when he knew his son would become evil. Surrender, Prometheus’s voice whispered in my ear. Otherwise your home will be destroyed. Your precious camp will burn. Then I looked at Hestia. Her red eyes glowed warmly. I remembered the images I’d seen in her hearth – friends and family, everyone I cared about. I remembered something Chris Rodriguez had said: There’s no point in defending camp if you guys die. All our friends are here. And Nico, standing up to his father Hades: If Olympus falls, he said, your own palace’s safety doesn’t matter.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“Oh, yeah,’ I said. ‘The bear thing.’ Zoë looked offended. ‘Show some respect. It was a fine bear. A worthy opponent.’ ‘You act like it was real.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“magic.’ The old satyr’s eye twitched. ‘I’m telling you I’ve heard nothing. Perhaps he’s dead.’ Juniper choked back a sob. ‘He’s not dead,’ I said. ‘I can feel that much.’ ‘Empathy links,’ Leneus said disdainfully. ‘Very unreliable.’ ‘So ask around,’ I insisted. ‘Find him. There’s a war coming. Grover was preparing the nature spirits.’ ‘Without my permission! And it’s not our war.’ I grabbed him by the shirt, which seriously wasn’t like me, but the stupid old goat was making me mad.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“Of course, Annabeth wouldn’t be able to breathe, but at the moment, that seemed like a minor problem.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“I take vitamins. For my ears.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“She looked a lot better. In fact, she shimmered with health, as if someone had injected her with glitter.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“He turned to look at me straight on, and I saw a kind of purplish fire in his eyes, a hint that this whiny, plump little man was only showing me the tiniest bit of his true nature. I saw visions of grape vines choking unbelievers to death, drunken warriors insane with battle lust, sailors screaming as their hands turned to flippers, their faces elongating into dolphin snouts. I knew that if I pushed him, Mr D would show me worse things. He would plant a disease in my brain that would leave me wearing a straitjacket in a rubber room for the rest of my life. ‘Would you like to test me, child?’ he said quietly. ‘No. No, sir.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“My Mother Teaches Me Bullfighting”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“Ares …”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“churning brown water of the Mississippi”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“Annabeth glared at me like she was going to punch me. And then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“I thought about how different she was from Zoë”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“shakily.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“New lesson, class,’ I announced. ‘Most monsters will vaporize when sliced with a celestial bronze sword. This change is perfectly normal, and will happen to you right now if you don’t BACK OFF!”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“Percy, there is no Mrs Dodds on this trip. As far as I know, there has never been a Mrs Dodds at Yancy Academy. Are you feeling all right?”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“A marching band played an out-of-tune fight song that sounded like somebody hitting a bag of cats with a metal baseball bat.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

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

~Nico”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians Boxed Set

“story to print. Thanks to my elder son, Haley Michael, who heard the story first; my younger son, Patrick John, who at the age of six is the levelheaded”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“I don’t recommend shadow-travel if you’re scared of: a) the dark
b) cold shivers up your spine
c) strange noises or
d) going so fast you feel as if your face is peeling off.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“there’s no point in defending camp if you guys die.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“What really killed me was my own arrogance.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“I am here because when all else fails, when all the other mighty gods have gone off to war, I am all that’s left. Home. Hearth. I am the last Olympian. You must remember me when you face your final decision.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“To save a friend, you would sacrifice the world.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“Quintus stared at me. ‘My boy, you need lessons from your friend on seeing clearly. I am Daedalus.’ There were a lot of answers I might’ve given, from ‘I knew that’ to ‘LIAR!’ to ‘Yeah right, and I’m Zeus.’ The only thing I could think to say was, ‘But you’re not an inventor! You’re a swordsman!’ ‘I am both,’ Quintus said. ‘And an architect. And a scholar. I also play basketball pretty well for a guy who didn’t start until he was two thousand years old. A real artist must be good at many things.’ ‘That’s true,’ Rachel said. ‘Like I can paint with my feet as well as my hands.’ ‘You see?’ Quintus said. ‘A girl of many talents.’ ‘But you don’t even look like Daedalus,’ I protested. ‘I saw him in a dream, and…’ Suddenly a horrible thought dawned on me. ‘Yes,’ Quintus said. ‘You’ve finally guessed the truth.’ ‘You’re an automaton. You made yourself a new body.’ ‘Percy,’ Annabeth said uneasily, ‘that’s not possible. That – that can’t be an automaton.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“Thalia gave her life to save you,’ I said, gritting my teeth. ‘And this is how you repay her?’ ‘Don’t speak of Thalia!’ he shouted. ‘The gods let her die! That’s one of the many things they will pay for.’ ‘You’re being used, Luke. You and Ares both. Don’t listen to Kronos.’ ‘I’ve been used?’ Luke’s voice turned shrill. ‘Look at yourself. What has your dad ever done for you? Kronos will rise. You’ve only delayed his plans. He will cast the Olympians into Tartarus and drive humanity back to their caves. All except the strongest – the ones who serve him.’ ‘Call off the bug,’ I said. ‘If you’re so strong, fight me yourself.’ Luke smiled. ‘Nice try, Percy. But I’m not Ares. You can’t bait me. My lord is waiting, and he’s got plenty of quests for me to undertake.’ ‘Luke –’ ‘Goodbye, Percy. There is a new Golden Age coming. You won’t be part of it.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“Thalia,’ Artemis said. ‘Daughter of Zeus. Will you join the Hunt?’ Stunned silence filled the room. I stared at Thalia, unable to believe what I was hearing. Annabeth smiled. She squeezed Thalia’s hand and let it go, as if she’d been expecting this all along. ‘I will,’ Thalia said firmly. Zeus rose, his eyes full of concern. ‘My daughter, consider well –’ ‘Father,’ she said. ‘I will not turn sixteen tomorrow. I will never turn sixteen. I won’t let this prophecy be mine. I stand with my sister Artemis. Kronos will never tempt me again.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“The Titan army ringed the building, standing maybe ten metres from the doors. Kronos’s vanguard was in the lead – Ethan Nakamura, the dracaena queen in her green armour and two Hyperboreans. I didn’t see Prometheus. The slimy weasel was probably hiding back at their headquarters. But Kronos himself stood right in front with his scythe in hand. The only thing standing in his way was … ‘Chiron,’ Annabeth said, her voice trembling. If Chiron heard us, he didn’t answer. He had an arrow notched, aimed straight at Kronos’s face.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson: The Complete Series