![]() “Life is only precious because it ends, kid.” ( The Son of Neptune) “The real world is where the monsters are.” ( The Lightning Thief) “Humans see what they want to see.” ( The Lightning Thief) “Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.” ( The Lightning Thief) ![]() Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we’re related for better or for worse…and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.” ( The Sea of Monsters) For instance, when you’re walking away from a bus that’s just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it’s raining on top of everything else, most people might think that’s just really bad luck when you’re a half-blood, you understand that some divine force is really trying to mess up your day.” ( The Titan’s Curse) “In a way, it’s nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” “Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.” ( The Lightning Thief) If after reading these quotes makes you nostalgic for books like the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, go check out our list of books like Percy Jackson! The Best Percy Jackson Quotes From the first book in the series, The Lightning Thief, to the most recent additions to the universe, Blood of Olympus, I went through and picked some of my favorite Percy Jackson quotes: the funny ones, the family ones, and the ones that just mean something a little different after growing up. Going back and reading them now, they carry this sense of nostalgia (once you get past the “oh my god you’re TWELVE” reaction) that can only come from returning to something that helped shape your humor and only booster your love of mythology. I devoured those books in middle school, and adored them. And until one of the houses is declared Jacks official sponsor, there are no limits to what they'll do to get Jack to fight for them.If you (or your kid) was like me in the mid-to-late 2000s, you probably had at least one Percy Jackson book on your shelves. Jacks performance on the soccer field has alerted the entire magical community to the fact that he's in Trinity. As if his bizarre magical heritage isn't enough, Jack finds out that he's not just another member of Weirlind he's one of the last of the warriors at a time when both houses are scouting for a player. At the head of this magical society sit the feuding houses of the Red Rose and the White Rose, whose power is determined by playing The Gamea magical tournament in which each house sponsors a warrior to fight to the death. Soon, Jack learns the startling truth about himself: he is Weirlind - part of an underground society of magical people who live among us. And it feels great until he loses control of his own strength and nearly kills another player during soccer team tryouts. Suddenly, he is stronger, fiercer, and more confident than ever before. ![]() Only the medicine he has to take daily and the thick scar above his heart set him apart from the other high-schoolers. Before he knew about the Roses, fourteen-year-old Jack lived an unremarkable life in the small Ohio town of Trinity.
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