The best Quotes from Percy Jackson

I can see the stars again, my lady.- Zoe Nightshade

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

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. Being a half-blood is dangerous. It's scary. Most of the time, it gets you killed. If you think you might be one of us, my advice is turn away while you still can. Believe whatever lie your mom or dad told you about your birth. Try to live a normal life. Because once you know what you are, they'll sense it too. And they'll come for you. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Hercules, huh? That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn - there he is.

"Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
"He's the sun god," I said.
"That's not what I meant."

You will see things just as they are, being a half-blood, but humans will interpret things quite differently. Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality.

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

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.

Life is only precious because it ends, kid.

Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse…and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.

Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?

All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade.

You hit the lord of the titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

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

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

In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some divine force is really trying to mess up your day.

"Just follow my lead," I said. "It'll be fun."
"Please," Sam begged, "don't let those words be carved on my tombstone."

Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth.

In case you're wondering, Old York looks absolutely nothing like New York. It looks older.
Magnus Chase, master of description. You're welcome.

That awkward moment when you jump out a window because your friend jumped out a window, then you remember that your other friend can fly.

Etiquette tip: If you're looking for the right time to leave a party, when the host yells, "No one leaves here alive," that's your cue.

You said Frey is about the middle ground between fire and ice. Maybe this isn't about choosing sides. Maybe I don't want to pick an extreme.

A little secret, Magnus. There is no good and evil. There's only capable and incapable. I am capable.

Tell the sun and stars hello for me.

I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

See, he's gotta have a weakness. Because everybody's got a weakness. I mean, for what? Pandora, it was the box thing. For the Trojans - hey, they bet on the wrong horse, okay?

I trained all those would-be heros:
Odysseus, Perseus, Theseus... a lot of 'euses'.

Brett Hand: "Question. Is this place evil?"
Reagan: "Uh, is Facebook evil? Is Starbucks evil?"