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41 " You're pretty smug, Lord Ares, for a guy who runs from Cupid statues. "
― Rick Riordan , The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
42 " Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument. "
43 " Your head is full of kelp. "
44 " You assume that it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist is that? "
45 " Earthshaker, Stormbreaker, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God "
46 " I didn't understand how. But the toilets had responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing... "
47 " 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? "
48 " everybody-even monsters-needed a little attention once in a while. "
49 " 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. "
50 " The less you knew, the fewer monsters you’d attract, "
51 " I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher "
52 " Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards. "
53 " I won't go looking for trouble. I usually don't have too. "
54 " See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson "
55 " I'm not usually an eavesdropper,but i dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult. "
56 " He had a note excusing him from PE for the rest of his life because he had some kind of muscular disease in his legs. He walked funny, like every step hurt him, but don't let that fool you. You should've seen him run when it was enchilada day in the cafeteria. "
57 " It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years. "
58 " I have moments like that alot, when my brain falls asleep or something, and the next thing I know I've missed something, as if a puzzle piece fell out of the universe and left me staring at the blank place behind it. "
59 " I whistled. "You have evil thoughts for a goat. "
60 " I wondered if Olympus had gone to a commercial break, or if our ratings had been any good. "