Quotes from book

The Lightning Thief

“Spontaneous combustion IS a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in.”

“The taller they are, the longer they fall.”

“You're a Demigod Percy, half god and half mortal!”

“I knew Dionysus must've filled it out, because he stubbornly insisted on getting my name wrong:

Dear _______Peter Johnson__________”

“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”

“Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.”

“It's useless to lecture a human.”

“They chose the olive"
"They must really like olives"
"Forget it"
"Now if she invented pizza that i can understand"
-Percy to Annabeth in the lightning theif”

“A Half-Blood of the eldest gods, Shall reach sixteen against all odds
And see the world in endless sleep
The Hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap
A single choice shall end his days
Olympus to preserve or raze.”

“I wondered if Olympus had gone to a commercial break, or if our ratings had been any good.”

“It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years.”

“I gave her my deluxe I'll-Kill-You-Later stare.”

“For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across--hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.”

“I had weird dreams full of barnyard animals. Most of them wanted to kill me. The rest wanted food.”

“everybody-even monsters-needed a little attention once in a while.”

“Humans see what they want to see.”

“Safety from what? Who's after me?"
Oh, nobody much," Grover said, obviously still miffed about the donkey comment. "Just the Lord of the Dead and a few of his blood-thirstiest minions.”

“Sounds like a plan worthy of Athena.”

“The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.”