They asked me a lot of questions about you. I hope they didn’t kick you our or anything.” “Every time I’m around you, some monsters attack us. “But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.” ( The Battle of the Labyrinth) “You turned me into a dandelion!” ( The Demigod Files) “It’s all right,” Persephone said coldly. I shifted uneasily, because talking that way to a god can get you blasted into dust bunnies.
“Welcome? After last time, you’ve got the nerve to welcome me?”
Nico squashed a pomegranate under his boot. “I am Persephone” she said, her voice thin and papery. “Dude, that sucks for you.” ( The Mark of Athena) She’d talked with that same accent, at least until Percy had cut off her head. Aunty Em’s Garden Gnome Emporium-the lair of Medusa. “I’m pretty sure that accent isn’t New Jersey. “And, Percy, his accent sounds familiar because he sounds like his mother. “I’m nobody’s sidekick,” Annabeth growled. Getting something and having the wits to use it…those are two different things. “Life is only precious because it ends, kid.” ( The Son of Neptune) “The real world is where the monsters are.” ( The Lightning Thief) “Humans see what they want to see.” ( The Lightning Thief) “Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.” ( The Lightning Thief) 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.” ( The Sea of Monsters) 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.” ( The Titan’s Curse) “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. “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” “Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.” ( The Lightning Thief) If after reading these quotes makes you nostalgic for books like the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, go check out our list of books like Percy Jackson! The Best Percy Jackson Quotes From the first book in the series, The Lightning Thief, to the most recent additions to the universe, Blood of Olympus, I went through and picked some of my favorite Percy Jackson quotes: the funny ones, the family ones, and the ones that just mean something a little different after growing up. Going back and reading them now, they carry this sense of nostalgia (once you get past the “oh my god you’re TWELVE” reaction) that can only come from returning to something that helped shape your humor and only booster your love of mythology. I devoured those books in middle school, and adored them. If you (or your kid) was like me in the mid-to-late 2000s, you probably had at least one Percy Jackson book on your shelves.