Quotes About Octavian

#1. As Hazel marched down the hill, she cursed in Latin. Percy didn't understand all of it, but he got son of a gorgon, power-hungry snake, and a few choice suggestions about where Octavian could stick his knife.

Rick Riordan

#2. Down in the water, Octavian yelled, "Get me out of here! I'll kill you!"
"Tempting," Percy called down.

Rick Riordan

#3. Yay! Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug - even Octavian, who didn't look thrilled about it.

Rick Riordan

#4. I am praetor of the legion," Reyna said. "I judge this to be in the best interest of Rome."
"To get yourself killed? To break our oldest laws and travel to the Ancient Lands? How will you even find their ship, assuming you survive the journey?" [Octavian]
"I will find them," Reyna said.

Rick Riordan

#5. Percy grunted. 'Probably something to do with that creep Octavian. Maybe he was so bad at telling the future that he broke Apollo's powers.

Rick Riordan

#6. Reyna sent me to get Percy," Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?"
"Yeah," Percy said. "He slaughtered my panda.

Rick Riordan

#7. And according to her dagger, that crazy teddy-bear-strangling kid, Octavian, was whipping the Romans into a war frenzy.

Rick Riordan

#8. The legion was raised by Mark Antony. He filled the ranks with men from Cleopatra's army. When Antony was defeated by Octavian, the Twenty-Second was integrated into the rest of the army and has been stationed on the Nile since then. They're a mix of Greeks and Egyptians from the Nile cities.

Simon Scarrow

#9. Her words had the intended effect. The Roman officers laughed nervously. Some sized up Ella, then looked at Octavian and snorted. The idea of a chicken lady issuing prophecies was apparently just as ridiculous to Romans as it was to Greeks. "I, uh ... " Octavian dropped his teddy bear. "No, but -

Rick Riordan

#10. But only two people known by name were also called "Son of God." One was the Roman emperor - starting with Octavian, or Caesar Augustus - and the other was Jesus. This is probably not an accident. When Jesus came on the scene as a divine man, he and the emperor were in competition.

Bart D. Ehrman

#11. The crowed that had so loved Octavian while he yet lived cheered ever so more loudly as he died.

Sean-Michael Argo

#12. Good idea," Percy put in. "Go burn your bears, Octavian.

Rick Riordan

#13. And then, this she offered to me, my one truth: "Our language," she said, "is not spoken, but sung ... Not simply words ... and grammar ... but melody. It was hard ... thus ... to learn English ... this language of wood. For the people of your nation, Octavian, all speech is song.

M T Anderson

#14. On the bright side," Percy said, "both Jason and I out rank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to shut up.

Rick Riordan

#15. (whose initials were probably OCTAVIAN).

Rick Riordan

#16. And he had it all over Octavian, let me tell you. Hung like a Pegasus, he was.

Rob Thurman

#17. Probably something to do with that creep Octavian. Maybe he was so bad at telling the future, he broke Apollo's powers.

Rick Riordan

#18. After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.

Octavian Paler

#19. We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.

Octavian Paler

#20. The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.

Octavian Paler

#21. The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'

Octavian Paler

#22. Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.

Octavian Paler

#23. A life without love is like a year without spring.

Octavian Paler

#24. That isn't fair." Her voice came out small, barely a whisper. "I didn't ask to be thrown into all this. I didn't ask to fall for a guy that isn't even human. It just happened and I have no idea what I'm supposed to do next so if you have some magical guidebook, I'd love to borrow it.

Airicka Phoenix

#25. Death is the only real thing from life.

Octavian Paler

#26. Next to the highest peak of happiness, there's the deepest gap of pain

Octavian Paler

#27. When love, that dandelion fluff, that always comes and goes with the first wind thread, will pass on to your door, then you will know you met me ...

Octavian Paler

#28. There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ...

Octavian Paler

#29. At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.

M T Anderson

#30. The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

Octavian Paler