584 Quotes About Percy-jackson

There was this jerkish son of Poseidon named Hallirrhothius. I'm not going to claim the dude as a brother. His name alone should tell you he was no good. Sounds like some kind of throat disease. I think I'll just call him Hal.

So next time you're bitten by a cobra, don't worry! Just book a flight to Lemnos and eat a bunch of dirt. You'll be fine.

Read those old Greek writers and they go on and on for pages about every shield or piece of armor Hephaestus made, describing every color and decoration, what size grommets he used, how many nails and zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.Sorry. I fell asleep just thinking about it.

Where did he come from? You'll love this. The word python was from the Greek pytho, which means rotting. The monster Python was born out of the festering, rotten slime left over from the great flood when Zeus drowned the world. Tasty!

Apollo was the god of so many different things, even the Greeks got confused. They'd be like, "Hmm, I forgot who the god of basket weaving is. Must be Apollo!

I guess that was nice of Chiron, for the dogs' sake, but it kind of makes me wonder if he's got a Percy Jackson scarecrow stuffed into a closet somewhere for emergencies. I'm not sure I want to know.

Young Bacchus became known as "the godly son of Zeus who lives on Nyssa," which got shortened to Dios (god) of Nyssa, which eventually became his new name: Dionysus, though he was still called Bacchus, the noisy one, especially after he ate beans or cabbage. Which is way more than you wanted to know.

Aw, but Percy, you whine (get it, whine?), it looks like the satyrs had so much fun drinking wine. It may sound that way, kids, but satyrs can be pretty stupid. (Again, no offense to my satyr buddy, Grover)

Some people even thought they had visions of the gods if they chugged enough wine. (Again: do not try this at home. You will not see the Greek gods. You may get a close-up view of your toilet as you are throwing up, but you will not see gods.)