The Chalice of the Gods Quotes

“Find someone who loves you the way my girlfriend pushes me off a cliff. Without hesitation. With full confidence in your abilities, with the rock-steady belief that your relationship can handle it, and with complete faith that when you come out of the water, assuming you survive, you will totally forgive them for the push. Almost certainly forgive them. Probably.
Bonus points if you find someone with enough chutzpah to say Bon Voyage while they do it.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“I am a guy of limited talents. If I can't kill it with water, a sword, or sarcasm, I am basically defenseless.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“We spent a few minutes painting light graffiti. Grover wrote Pan 4ever. I wrote AC+PJ.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“I imagined Annabeth with silver hair and wrinkles, chuckling as she called me Seaweed Brain for the four millionth time in our lives.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“Are you kidding?” He grinned at Annabeth. “A chance to do quests, just the three of us? Like old times? The Three Musketeers!” “The Powerpuff Girls,” Annabeth suggested. “Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey,” I said. “Wait a minute,” Grover said. “I’m fine with this,” Annabeth said.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“Cool.” I used my flashlight to draw a glowing smiley face on the wall. “How old are you?” Annabeth asked. “Eight just last week.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“That afternoon, I did something unusual. I visited the library. Yeah, I know. I could almost hear that turntable needle scratch in your head as you tried to process that idea. If I told you I fell into Tartarus again, or got swallowed by a giant, or had to go bungee jumping in a volcano, you’d be like, Yeah, that makes sense. But Percy visiting a library? That’s way off brand.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“It was like a job requirement for them: 1) become a god, 2) get a cool magic thing, 3) lose it, 4) ask a demigod to find it.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“Annabeth has this magic power where she can look into the future and figure out how long it will take to do certain things. She calls her power "scheduling," which directly overrules my magic power of procrastination.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“To his left was my buddy Hera, goddess of making Percy miserable.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“She let the thought drift away into the Land of Half-Formed Thoughts About Things That Could Kill Percy Jackson. I spent a lot of my time in that land.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“Discreet is what we do,” said Grover, who had once blindly dive-bombed Medusa in a pair of flying shoes while screaming at the top of his lungs.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“Sometimes it's the smallest waves that knock you off your feet. Tsunamis—everybody know's they're powerful. Tidal waves—big and impressive. But those small waves? They hold a lot of power. They prove what the ocean is capable of, even when no one is paying attention (...) I always keep an eye on you, Percy, mostly from a distance, it's true. I've watched you save the world multiple times, conquering enemies that would scare most immortals. But it wasn't till today that I realized how much of a hero you truly are (...) You risked your life for a cupbearer you barely know. Not for a letter. Not because the fate of the world was at state. But because that's just who you are. Today, you created a small wave, and you showed what the ocean is capable of.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“I kind of wish we had Luke’s flying shoes,” Annabeth said. Grover winced. “Too soon.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“he hadn’t killed me yet, so I decided to keep talking. (This is a mistake I make a lot.)”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“You’d be amazed how many teachers, administrators, and other school staff are monsters in disguise. Or maybe you wouldn’t be amazed.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“I believed everyone should have the right to ruin their own life without anyone else ruining it for them.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“I asked myself, Percy, why are you doing that?
I don’t know, I answered, because I am not very helpful when I talk to myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“We have deep conversations like that.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“Then he got up and wandered off in his bathrobe to pour more divine Kool-Aid.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“The last thing the world needed was boomers aging backward, like, We enjoyed monopolizing the planet so much the first time, we’re going to do it again!”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“I come preloaded with sarcasm.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“I realized everybody at the table was holding their breath. Maybe they were afraid I would make all the plumbing in the apartment building explode. Which, for the record, I only did that one time.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“Annabeth took out her purse and produced a five-dollar bill. Because of course, along with every other strange and archaic ancient tool that she might need, she carried cash.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“Here’s a challenge: try to do a full day of school (actually, that could be the whole challenge by itself), and then, afterward, go on a quest to find a goddess, knowing that when you get home, if you get home, you’ll still have a couple of hours of math and science homework to do.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“Nostalgia is the doorway back to youth.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“I’d sworn off spaghetti, but pasta is like a best friend: you can’t stay mad at it forever.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“because any future that had us in it was a future I wanted to live through.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“You know,” he said, “sometimes it’s the smallest waves that knock you off your feet. Tsunamis—everybody knows they’re powerful. Tidal waves—big and impressive. But those small waves? They hold a lot of power. They prove what the ocean is capable of, even when no one is paying attention.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“I have a message for Annabeth Chase,” I said. “I love you.”
I tried to give her a kiss, but it was difficult, because she started laughing.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods