Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief Quotes

He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die!

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

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

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Humans see what they want to see.

Earthshaker, Stormbreaker, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

The real world is where the monsters are.

i held it up, and tried to channel happy dog thoughts toward Cerberus- Alpo commercials, cute little puppies, fire hydrants.

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

The sea does not like to be restrained.

Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.

It's useless to lecture a human.

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

I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.

Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled.

Your head is full of kelp.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year.

You're pretty smug, Lord Ares, for a guy who runs from Cupid statues.

Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument.

He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd turned middle-aged in a trailer park.

The dead aren't scary. They are just sad.

I said hello to the poodle.

everybody-even monsters-needed a little attention once in a while.

I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain, " she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you're going to save the world, I'm the best person to keep you from messing up.

I imagined she was going to say, You killed a Minotaur! or Wow, you're so awesome! or something like that. Instead she said, "You drool when you sleep.

The less you knew, the fewer monsters you’d attract,

Your uncle, " Poseidon sighed, "has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done well as the god of theater.

A faint smile played on his lips. "Obedience does not come naturally to you, does it?""No...sir""I must take some blame for that, I suppose. The sea does not like to be restrained.

Meat!" he said scornfully. "I'm a vegetarian."You eat cheese enchiladas and aluminum cans, " I reminded him.Those are vegetables.

I'm Crusty, " he said, with a tartar-yellow smile.I resisted the urge to say, Yes, you are.

Grover murmured, "Well, Percy, what have we learned today?"That three-headed dogs prefer red rubber balls over sticks?"No, " Grover told me. "We've learned that your plans really, really bite!

I didn't understand how. But the toilets had responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing...

You may choose to believe or not, but the fact is that immortal means immortal. Can you imagine that for a moment, never dying? Never fading? Existing, just as you are, for all time?

I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera.The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

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.

I wondered if Grover could still read my emotions, mixed up as they were.

Right, " she said, "We're going to the Land of the Dead and I shouldn't think negative.

Mr. D, " Grover asked timidly, "if you're not going to eat it, could I have your Diet Coke can?

But remember: what belongs to the sea will always return to the sea.--Nereid

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you'll lose it all

Chiron looked surprised. “I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.

Names have power.

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

A steely look of anger flared in my mother’s eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own.

I have brought you a hero’s fate, and a hero’s fate is never happy. It is never anything but tragic.

I wanted to get angry, this guy pushed me so hard.

I sort of fell.""Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet?

Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality.