Top 100 Percy Quotes
#1. Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy.
Rick Riordan
#2. There was Tyson moving into the Poseidon cabin, giggling to himself every fifteen seconds and saying, "Percy is my brother?" like he'd just won the lottery.
Aw, Tyson," I'd say. "It's not that simple.
Rick Riordan
#3. Annabeth wanted to sob. She wanted someone, anyone to be here for her. She wanted Leo with his fire skills, or Jason with his lightning, or Hazel to collapse the tunnel. Most of all she wanted Percy. She always felt braver when Percy was with her.
Rick Riordan
#4. Um ... is that thing tame?" Frank said.
The horse whinnied angrily.
"I don't think so," Percy guessed. "He just said, 'I will trample you to death, silly Chinese Canadian baby man'.
Rick Riordan
#5. Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.
J.K. Rowling
#6. Percy Bysshe (the only poet named for the sound of a match hitting water),
Bill Bryson
#7. Do yourself a favor,' I said. "Forget it. Forget you ever saw me."
"Forget that you tried to kill me too?"
"Yeah. That, too."
"But who are you?"
"Percy-" I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. "Gotta go!"
"What kind of name is Percy Gotta-go?"
I bolted for the exit.
Rick Riordan
#8. His hair was permed and gelled like a New Jersey girl's on homecoming night.
Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
#9. There were a lot of answers I might've given, from "I knew that" to "LIAR!" to "Yeah right, and I'm Zeus." - Percy, after Quintus says that he is Daedalus
Rick Riordan
#10. Oh, get out of the way, Percy," said Fred. "Harry's in a hurry."
"Yeah, he's off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fanged servant," said George, chortling.
J.K. Rowling
#11. You seem to be clean," Terminus decided. "Do you have anything to declare?" "Yes," Percy said. "I declare this is stupid.
Anonymous
#12. They're Lares. House gods."
"House gods," Percy said. "Like ... smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods?
Rick Riordan
#13. The guy had literally been through hell and back. Even when he wasn't trying, he made the toilets explode. What would Percy be like if he wanted to act scary?
Rick Riordan
#14. Annabeth: Hey, Seaweed Brain. Percy: Will you stop calling me that? Annabeth: You know you love it.
Rick Riordan
#15. You're a Demigod Percy, half god and half mortal!
Rick Riordan
#16. He [Percy] pleaded with those sea-green eyes, like a cute baby seal that needed help. Piper wondered how Annabeth ever won an argument with this guy.
Rick Riordan
#17. You're Dionysus," I said. "The god of wine."
Mr. D rolled his eyes. "What do they say these days, Grover? Do the children say 'Well duh!'?"
Y-yes, Mr. D."
Then, well, duh! Percy Jackson. Did you think I was Aphrodite, perhaps?"
You're a god."
Yes, child."
A god. You.
Rick Riordan
#18. Shut up, Valdez." Frank gave him a bear hug. "And be careful." "Ribs," Leo squeaked. "Sorry." Annabeth and Percy wished them good luck. Then Percy excused himself to go throw up.
Rick Riordan
#19. Um," Grover said. "Percy?"
"Yeah?"
"I thought you'd want to know."
"Yeah?"
"Cerberus? He's saying we've got ten seconds to pray to the god of our choice.After that ... well ... he's hungry.
Rick Riordan
#20. Make Hamilton Bamilton, make Douglas Puglas, make Percy Bercy, and Stanley Tanley and where would be the long-resounding march and energy divine of the roll-call of the peerage?
George Augustus Henry Sala
#21. I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man ... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. [on Brit poet Percy Wyndham Lewis]
Ernest Hemingway,
#22. You're not getting away from me. Never again. - Percy
Rick Riordan
#23. So long as you don't go falling in love with me." I don't know why I say it. Call it battlements around my helpless heart. Percy looks away from me fast, shoulders curling up. It almost looks like a flinch. But then he says, "I'll try my best." He
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#24. I (Percy) set Nico on guard duty with Beckendorf and the Stoll brothers, figuring he'd be safely out of the way.
...
"What's happening?" Nico demanded, trying to climb up next to me.
Rick Riordan
#25. Nathaniel Septimus Ernest Bertram Lysander Tybalt Zacharias Edmund Alexander Humphrey Percy Quentin Tristan Augustus Bartholomew Tarquin Imogen Sebastian Theodore Clarence Smythe.
David Walliams
#26. My host needs a certain level of simplicity," the goddess continued. "Percy Jackson is perfect. He is powerful, yet his mind is not overly crowded with plans and ideas."
"Wow," I said. "Really feeling the love here.
Rick Riordan
#27. For a moment, Nico felt like a little kid again. He was tempted to blurt out, That's so cool! Even before he got into Mythomagic, he'd been obsessed with pirates. Probably that was one reason he'd been so smitten with Percy, a son of the sea god.
Rick Riordan
#28. Hazel squinted. "How far?"
"Just over the river and through the woods."
Percy raised an eyebrow. "Seriously? To Grandmother's house we go?"
Frank cleared his throat. "Yeah, anyway.
Rick Riordan
#29. Never seen Jason fly before," Percy grumbled. "He looks like a blond Superman
Rick Riordan
#30. Bob ... the Titan ... he only helped us in Tartarus because you were kind to him. You told him we were worth saving. That's the only reason we're alive.' She said we so easily, as if she and Percy were interchangeable, inseparable.
Rick Riordan
#31. Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty.
-Percy
Rick Riordan
#32. Like your zodiac sign? Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.
'No, stupid,' Leo said. I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.
Rick Riordan
#33. And really, really, when you put a fairy tale together with grime and despair and industrial angst you get the Gothic, and that's where we live, Percy.
Catherynne M Valente
#34. Wow." Percy handed back the book. "Maybe Mars is different than Ares. I don't think Ares can read.
Rick Riordan
#35. The god's nostrils flared. One of the grape leaves on his hat burst into flame. "If we know each other from that other camp, it's a wonder I haven't already turned you into a dolphin."
"It was discussed," Percy assured him. "I think you were just too lazy to do it.
Rick Riordan
#36. Dude." Jason gave Percy a bear hug.
"Back from Tartarus!" Leo whooped. "That's my peeps!
Rick Riordan
#37. I love to read and you should read percy kackson & the olympians the last one the best
Rick Riordan
#38. Without warning, Hera had plucked up Percy Jackson, Annabeth's boyfriend, wiped his memory, and sent him to the Roman camp. In exchange, the Greeks had gotten Jason. None of that was Jason's fault; but every time Annabeth saw him, she remembered how much she missed Percy.
Rick Riordan
#40. His face was gaunt, scraped and bloody, his hair dusted with cobwebs, but when he locked eyes with her, she thought he had never looked more handsome.
Percy & Annabeth
Rick Riordan
#41. Without you, I doubt Percy could find a way out of a paper bag.'
'True', Annabeth agreed.
'Hey!' Percy complained.
Rick Riordan
#42. What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!
Percy had no intention of doing that.
Rick Riordan
#43. Annabeth looked at me. " We have to get out of here."
" You think I want to be in the girls' restroom?"
" I mean the ship, Percy! We have to get off the ship."
" Smells bad," Tyson agreed. " And dogs eat all the eggs. Annabeth is right. We must leave the restroom and the ship.
Rick Riordan
#44. Torture?" Primrose's tone was thoughtful. "Cold tea?" "German poetry." Percy reached to a shelf and offered up an unpleasantly fat leather-bound volume. Rue was arrested. "There's such a thing as German poetry?" Primrose nodded seriously. "Yes. Save yourself.
Gail Carriger
#45. I'm fine!" Percy yelled out as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder.
Rick Riordan
#46. Annabeth realized that if six of them went on these two quests, it would leave Percy alone on the ship with Coach Hedge, which was maybe not a situation a caring girlfriend should put him in. Nor was she eager to let Percy out of her sight again - not after they'd been apart for so many months.
Rick Riordan
#47. Percy looked at his friends. I'm getting tired of this guy's shirt.
Rick Riordan
#48. Your former friend Luke " Poseidon corrected. "He once promised things like that. He was Hermes's pride and joy. Just bear that in mind Percy. Even the bravest can fall.
Rick Riordan
#49. Um, dad?" I called "How's it going?"
"Percy!" Annabeth whispered. "We're in a hurry!
Rick Riordan
#50. Oh, obviously," Reyna said. "Without you, I doubt Percy could find his way out of a paper bag." "True," Annabeth agreed.
Rick Riordan
#51. Braccas meas vescimini!
I wasn't sure where the Latin came from. I think it meant 'Eat my pants!'
-Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
#52. I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.
James Joyce
#53. Juniper: Are you guys busy?
Percy: Well, we're in the middle of this game against a bunch of monsters and we're trying not to die.
Annabeth: We're not busy.
Rick Riordan
#54. When your name is really and truly Percy Blakeney, pronounced 'Black-knee', and you still have bad acne in your twenties, you accept Pimple as a nickname and are grateful that it wasn't anything worse.
Terry Pratchett
#55. That morning on sentry duty, before Percy showed up, Frank had almost told Hazel his secret.
Rick Riordan
#56. Dude." Percy sent his thoughts through the water, the way he spoke to other sea creatures. "A goldfish?"
Frank's voice came back to him: "I freaked. We were talking about goldfish, so it was on my mind. Sue me.
Rick Riordan
#57. Me, I'm late to meet my girlfriend. Annabeth is going to kill me.
Hope you enjoyed the stories. Stay safe out there, demigods.
Peace from Manhattan,
Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
#59. Gods forbid if she ever broke up with him. She'd never be able to visit the sea again without remembering her broken heart.
Annabeth about Percy
Rick Riordan
#60. FORGET THE CHICKEN-NUGGET SMOKE SCREEN. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat. That night he had horrible nightmares.
Rick Riordan
#61. Percy, explaining things to you is like lecturing a gerbil.
Rick Riordan
#62. I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.
William Shakespeare
#63. The Death Mist is not for helping!" Akhlys shrieked. "It shrouds mortals in misery as their souls pass into the Underworld. It is the very breath of Tartarus, of death, of despair!"
"Awesome," Percy said. "Could we get two orders of that to go?
Rick Riordan
#64. Please tell me we don't have to find it," Percy said. "I've had enough giant magic statues for one trip.
Rick Riordan
#65. And it was the best underwater kiss of all time. Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
#66. Percy can pass seventh grade. Waffles can be blue. Little miracles like that.
Rick Riordan
#67. A half-blood of the eldest dogs ... "
"Er, Percy?" Annabeth interrupted. "That's gods. Not dogs.
Rick Riordan
#68. Great," Percy said. "I always wanted to be glue.
Rick Riordan
#69. Percy couldn't believe he was talking about the end of the world with a loaf of Wonder bread in his hand.
Rick Riordan
#70. You'll do well, Percy. Just remember your strengths and beware your weaknesses.
Rick Riordan
#71. I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing ... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.
J.K. Rowling
#72. A ghost of a smile flickered across her lips- Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
#73. The deeper I go into mythology, the more I find. I originally did five 'Percy Jackson' books. I thought that would cover Greek mythology and I couldn't have been more wrong. It's ever-expanding.
Rick Riordan
#74. No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero.
- Poseidon
Rick Riordan
#75. Man, your horse can cuss." Percy shook his head. "He doesn't think much of Olympia." For
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#76. I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam.' The books are accurate enough that they can serve as a gateway to Homer and Virgil.
Rick Riordan
#77. Hello George. Hey Martha (Percy) Did you bring us a rat? (George) George, stop it!He's busy! (Martha) Too busy for rats? That's just sad. (George)
Rick Riordan
#78. You, sir, are a ray of sunshine.
-Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
#79. Percy: Dad-
Poseidon: Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works.
Percy: I'm praying, I'm talking to you, right?
Poseidon: Oh ... yes. Good point.
Rick Riordan
#80. Bessie?" I looked down at the bull serpent. "But ... he's too cute. He couldn't destroy the world."
-Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
#81. Now ... well, after what happened in Tartarus, it seemed like Percy had graduated to a totally different level of butt-kickery.
Rick Riordan
#83. Annabeth smiled. "I don't know the ocean very well, but my boyfriend does. I think it's time you met Percy.
Rick Riordan
#84. Good job on Percy Jackson I read all of them 8 times and have listened 42 times and still not bored Thanks.
Rick Riordan
#85. As they sailed farther from the coast, the sky darkened and more stars came out. Percy studied the constellations - the ones Annabeth had taught him so many years ago.
Rick Riordan
#86. He saw Ron and Neville bringing down Fenrir Greyback, Aberforth Stunning Rookwood, Arthur and Percy flooring Thicknesse, and Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy running through the crowd, not even attempting to fight, screaming for their son.
J.K. Rowling
#87. I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy,
To share with me in glory any more:
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere;
William Shakespeare
#88. Annabeth frowned. "That doesn't make sense. But why were you visiting
" Her eyes widened. "Hermes said you bear the curse of Achilles. Hestia said the same thing. Did you ... did you bathe in the River Styx?"
"Don't change the subject."
"Percy! Did you or not?"
"Um ... maybe a little.
Rick Riordan
#89. Is this guy Love or Death? Jason growled.
Ask your friends, Cupid said. Frank, Hazel, and Percy met my counterpart, Thanatos. We are not so different. Except Death is sometimes kinder.
Rick Riordan
#90. All three boys slumped forward. Percy fell face-first into his pizza.
Rick Riordan
#91. Percy shrugged. Okay. But a word of advice: when you see Apollo, don't mention haiku.
Rick Riordan
#92. I sort of fell."
"Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet?
Rick Riordan
#93. Don't talk to my sister that way. Nico said. His voice quivered, but I was impressed that he had the guts to say anything at all. - Percy
Rick Riordan
#94. I think it's time you met Percy. - Annabeth
Rick Riordan
#95. Go with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all. Hades feeds on doubt and hopelessness. He will trick you if he can, make you mistrust your own judgment. Once you are in his realm, he will never willingly let you leave. Keep faith. Good luck, Percy Jackson.
Rick Riordan
#96. Percy's thoughts: I don't recommend shadow travel if your scared of:
A) The dark
B) Cold shivers up your spine
C) Strange noises
D) Going so fast you feel like your is peeling off
In other words I thought it was awesome
Rick Riordan
#97. Down in the water, Octavian yelled, "Get me out of here! I'll kill you!"
"Tempting," Percy called down.
Rick Riordan
#98. I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorable and audacious characters Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow created.
Philip Schultz
#99. You're gonna be like Aquaman?" she asked. "Get the fish to fight for you?"
"Thanks," Percy said. "I haven't heard enough Aquaman jokes for one lifetime.
Rick Riordan
#100. I have an uncle and cousin in Boston." Percy looked shocked. "You, with the Yankees cap? You've got family in Red Sox country?" Annabeth smiled weakly. "I never see them. My dad and my uncle don't get along. Some old rivalry. I don't know. It's stupid what keeps people apart.
Rick Riordan
