Quotes from book

The Lightning Thief

“I whistled. "You have evil thoughts for a goat.”

“So few people did good in their lives. It was depressing.”

“It's like I was connected to the plumping system.”

“Two U. S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests.
"You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesman.”

“I'd made water shoot out of the bathroom fixtures. I didn't understand how. But the toilets responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing.”

“Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, "Can I have your apple?”

“Suspecting and knowing are not the same.”

“Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument.”

“The wood nymph instructors left me in the dust. They told me not to worry about it. They'd had centuries of practice running away from lovesick gods. But still, it was a little humiliating to be slower than a tree.”

“Even strength has to bow down to wisdom sometimes.”

“How does Galdoila know about the reward?" i asked.
"He reads the signs," Grover said. "Duh."
"Of course," I said. "Silly me.”

“Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.”

“If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?”

“We'd just released a zebra in Las Vegas.”

“He offered to stop the tide for me once. He offered to build me a palace at the bottom of the sea.”

“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.”

“Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?”

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”

“What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear?”