“Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot." "He's the sun god," I said. "That's not what I meant.” ― Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse tags: apollo, gods, hot, olympians, percy-jackson, sun, thalia 3546 likes like
“Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. "That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there." "Which one is me?" I asked. "The little deformed one," Zoe suggested. "Oh, shut up.” ― Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse tags: acorns, percy-jackson, zoe-nightshade 3072 likes like
“The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important." "It was probably important to her.” ― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters tags: annabeth-chase, gold, humor, percy-jackson 2673 likes like
“What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?" "I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you." "Why?" "Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?” ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief tags: annabeth-chase, athena, percy-jackson, poseidon 2519 likes like
“Dreams like a podcast, Downloading truth in my ears. They tell me cool stuff." "Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad. He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred." "A god named Fred?” ― Rick Riordan tags: apollo, fred, haiku, humor, percy-jackson, poem 2467 likes like
“I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.” ― Rick Riordan tags: percy-jackson, rachel-elizabeth-dare 2416 likes like
“Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.” ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth tags: death, greek, humor, mythology, percy-jackson, sorry 2170 likes like
“You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?" "Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily. "Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!" I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer.” ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth tags: annabeth-chase, olympians, peanut-butter, percy-jackson, tyson 2119 likes like
“Can you surf really well, then?" I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. "Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried." He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat- flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.)” ― Rick Riordan tags: annabeth-chase, athena, funny, humor, myth, mythology, olympians, percy-jackson, posiedon, the-lightning-thief, zeus 1900 likes like
“God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude! Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!” ― Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse tags: blackjack, dionysus, percy-jackson 1809 likes like
“Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if the garment was stitched of trapped souls from the Fields of Punishment, trying to get out. The ADHD part of me wondered, off-task, whether the rest of his clothes were made the same way. What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear?” ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief tags: hades, percy-jackson 1788 likes like
“Percy: Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right? Annabeth: Come back alive, Seaweed Brain. Then we'll see.” ― Rick Riordan tags: annabeth-chase, percy-jackson 1580 likes like
“Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.” ― Rick Riordan tags: cute, isaiat, kiss, love, mart, percy-jackson, underwater 1450 likes like
“We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.” ― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena tags: annabeth-chase, emotion, heartbreak, love, percy-jackson 1413 likes like
“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.” ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief tags: annabeth-chase, banter, grover-underwood, percy-jackson 1292 likes like
“Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. "You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together." "You are not going to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?" "You would've done the same for me." It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod.” ― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian tags: annabeth-chase, debt, favor, friendship, knife, percy-jackson 1263 likes like
“Braccas meas vescimini!" I wasn't sure where the Latin came from. I think it meant 'Eat my pants!” ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief tags: epithet, latin, percy-jackson 1255 likes like
“Now, come over here so I can pat you down." "But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure." He stood next to the armless statue. Terminus conducted a rigorous mental pat down. "You seem to be clean," Terminus decided. "Do you have anything to declare?" "Yes," Percy said. "I declare that this is stupid.” ― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune tags: customs, declare, mental-pat-down, no-arms, percy-jackson, terminus 1181 likes like
“Monkey bar," Annabeth said. "I'm great at these." She leaped onto to the first rung and start swinging her way across. She was scared of tiny spiders, but not of plummeting to her death from a set of monkey bars. Go figure.” ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth tags: annabeth-chase, percy-jackson 1179 likes like
“She raised an eyebrow. "You got something to say to me, Seaweed Brain?"
You'd probably kick my butt."
You know I'd kick your butt."
I brushed the cake off my hands. "When I was at the River Styx, turning invulnerable . . . Nico said I had to concentrate on one thing that kept me anchored to the world, that made me want to stay mortal."
Annabeth kept her eyes on the horizon. "Yeah?"
Then up on Olympus," I said, "when they wanted to make me a god and stuff, I kept thinking-"
Oh, you so wanted to."
Well, maybe a little. But I didn't, because I thought-I didn't want things to stay the same for eternity, because things could always get better. And I was thinking . . ." My throat felt really dry.
Anyone in particular?" Annabeth asked, her voice soft.
I looked over and saw that she was trying not to smile.
You're laughing at me," I complained.
I am not!"
You are so not making this easy."
Then she laughed for real, and she put her hands around my neck. "I am never, ever going to make things easy for you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it.” ― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian tags: annabeth-chase, percy-jackson 1165 likes like
“Very slowly using two fingers, Annabeth drew her dagger. Instead of dropping it, she tossed it as far as she could into the water.
Octavian made a squeaking sound. "What was that for? I didn't say tossit! That could've been evidence. Or spoils of war!"
Annabeth tried for a dumb-blonde smile, like: Oh, silly me. Nobody who knew her would have been fooled. But Octavian seemed to buy it. He huffed in exasperation.
"You other two..." He pointed his blade a Hazel and Piper. "Put your weapons on the dock. No funny bus--"
All around the Romans, Charleston Harbor erupted like a Las Vegas fountain putting on a show. When the wall of seawater subsided, the three Romans were in the bay, spluttering and frantically trying to stay afloat in their armor. Percy stood on the dock, holding Annabeth's dagger.
"You dropped this," he said, totally poker-faced.” ― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena tags: annabeth-chase, fighting, octavian, percy-jackson, seawater, smile 992 likes like
“Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.” ― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena tags: humor, percy-jackson 986 likes like
“Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!” ― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena tags: diet-coke, dolphin-warriors, mark-of-athena, percy-jackson 942 likes like
“My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York. Am I a troubled kid? Yeah. You could say that.” ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief tags: different, humor, introduction, percy-jackson, school, trouble 930 likes like
“The throne rumbled. A wave of gale-force anger slammed into me. WHO DARES- The voice stopped abruptly, The anger retreated, which was a good thing, because just those two words had almost blasted my mind to shreds. Percy. My fathers voice was still angry but more controlled. What-exactly-are you doing on my throne? "I'm sorry, Father," I said. "I needed to get your attention." This was a very dangerous thing to do. Even for you. If I hadn't looked before I blasted, you would now be a puddle of seawater.” ― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian tags: percy-jackson, poseidon 920 likes like
“Remind me again-why do you hate me so much?"
I don't hate you."
Could've fooled me."
She folded her cap of invisibility. "Look...we're just not supposed to get along, okay? Our parents are rivals."
Why?"
She sighed. "How many reasons do you want? One time my mom caught Poseidon with his girlfriend in Athena's temple, which is hugely disrespectful. Another time, Athena and Poseidon competed to be the patron god for the city of Athens. Your dad created some stupid saltwater spring for his gift. My mom created the olive tree. The people saw that her gift was better, so they named the city after her."
They must really like olives."
Oh, forget it."
Now, if she'd invented pizza-that I could understand.” ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief tags: annabeth-chase, athena, banter, percy-jackson, poseidon 876 likes like
“It's okay,” he said. “We're together.” He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive. After all they'd been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that.” ― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena tags: absence, annabeth-chase, heroes-of-olympus, inspirational, love, percy-jackson, percy-jackson-and-the- olympians, relationship, separation, the-mark-of-athena 834 likes like
“I'm calm," Rachel insisted. "Every time I'm around you, some monsters attack us. What's to be nervous about?" "Look," I said. "I'm sorry about the band room. I hope they didn't kick you our or anything." "Nah. They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb." "Was it hard?" Annabeth asked.” ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth tags: annabeth-chase, dumb, humor, insult, percy-jackson, rachel-dare 831 likes like
“Hey, can I see that sword you were using?" I showed him Riptide, and explained how it turned from a pen into a sword just by uncapping it. "Cool! Does it ever run out of ink?" "Um, well, I don't actually write with it." "Are you really the son of Poseidon?" "Well, yeah." "Can you surf really well, then?" I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. "Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried." He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat- flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.)” ― Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse tags: annabeth-chase, athena, grover-underwood, nico-di-angelo, percy-jackson, poseidon, thalia-grace, zeus 807 likes like
“Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.” ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief