Percy Jackson Quotes

(Percy’s speech to rally the campers…)

Percy: Look, look. This is it. This is the real thing. What Chiron’s been training us for. We all grew up hearing these stories about heroes. You think that story, that quest, that… prophecy… it’s gotta be about someone else. But it’s not. It’s just us. There is no bigger hero or divine intervention to come to our rescue. We have to take care of our own. Because that’s what real heroes do. We stand up for each other. We stand up for our home!

Percy: It’s your quest. You should be the one to complete it.

Clarisse: So, you’re just gonna let me win?

Percy: This isn’t about winning or losing. This is about getting the Fleece to the tree as soon as possible to save camp. There’s only room for one, and I know you won’t stop for anything.

Clarisse: What about my prophecy? What you said about how I…

Percy: I was wrong. In a lot of ways. You trusted me with your prophecy and I used it against you. I’m sorry. I don’t think your prophecy means that you’d fail because you don’t have friends. It means you’d fail without friends to help you… to fly home alone.

Percy: What if I’m more human than demigod? That’s what you were worried about. What you said in the ironclad. Human choices. That’s me. That’s all I am. I haven’t spent enough time in your world to change that. And this was never my quest. I’m a danger to it.

Annabeth: If you’re talking about the Great Prophecy, that’s three years away. We need to get past the Sirens and save Grover now.

Percy: You’re not hearing me. What if we get there and I have to choose between saving Grover and saving camp? Or saving Grover and saving you? My flaw isn’t just fatal to me.

Percy: You were right. You guys should be afraid of me because that lady’s right.

Annabeth: No!

Percy: Yes, she is. I saw it. I can see it now. Tyson is dead. Grover is lost. So if I had to choose between saving you or saving Olympus… Annabeth… I’d burn it all down. Just like Luke said Thalia would.

Luke (to Annabeth): You know about the Great Prophecy. (to Percy): And you don’t. See? This is how the gods divide us. By walling off the truth.

Percy: I actually don’t wanna know.

Luke: Because you’re smart or because you’re scared?

Percy: Can I be both?

Percy: I don’t think Luke can be saved. I don’t think he wants to be.

Hermes: Well, you’re a pretty smart kid, little cuz. But that’s the first wrong thing you’ve said. If I’ve learned anything through the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.

Percy: You’re not telling me something. But I don’t care. I’m guessing I’m going to need whatever’s in that bag.

Hermes: You’re finally beginning to understand how things work in this family.

Hermes: I helped you out last year with that thing in Vegas.

Percy: What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas?

Hermes: What happens in Vegas is the reason for half the kids in the Hermes Cabin.