"The Battle of the Labyrinth" Quotes
Percy Jackson and his friends navigate a treacherous labyrinth to prevent an ancient evil from rising.
fantasy | 361 pages | Published in 2008
Quotes
You deal with mythological crap for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.
The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually, he didn't pick them up. He only had room for one. He picked up Europa and took her to Crete. Cadmus was leftover.
My point is, I didn't need you to be a hero. I needed you to be my friend.
I couldn't believe how much damage one little explosion could cause. It wasn't much comfort to know that it was a dud.
I tried to tell him; sometimes the world is complicated. That's the thing about being a half-blood.
You could be the most beautiful person in the world and everyone sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don't know it, all of that doesn't even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself; is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. It's not like you have forever, so don't waste any of your seconds, don't throw even one of your moments away.
The best people are always the weirdest.
It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.
Sadie had once told me that people are like sheep. They follow each other around, doing whatever the latest trend is, thinking they're so cool. She was right.
The most dangerous doors are the ones you don't even know are there.





