Quotes from book

The Hidden Oracle

“It always disappointed me when mortals put themselves first and failed to see the big picture—the importance of putting me first”

“Defeating one ant had taken all my energy. (I don’t think I have ever written a sadder sentence than that.)”

“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.”

“Up in my business Always burning Oracles Romans gonna hate”

“Sacred Sibyl!” I cried. “Madam, there is something wrong with your midsection!”

The woman stopped, mystified, and looked down at her hugely swollen belly. “Well, I’m seven months pregnant.”

“I've found that when one us searching for danger, it's never hard to find.”

“I wondered if I should start a small fire in Percy Jackson's sink, perhaps burn some bandages in thanks, but I decided that might strain that Jackson's hospitality.”

“Used to be goddy Now uptown feeling shoddy Bah, haiku don’t rhyme”

“Zeus did not answer. He was probably too busy recording my humiliation to share on Snapchat.”

“He faced us. “You hear that, guys? A batch of cookies is depending on me. If you get me killed on the way to camp, I am going be ticked off.”

“Zeus needed someone to blame, so of course he’d picked the handsomest, most talented, most popular god in the pantheon: me.”