Every accepted public quote

“Nico studied his face – his sea-green eyes, his grin, his ruffled black hair. Somehow Percy Jackson seemed like a regular guy now, not a mythical figure. Not someone to idolize or crush on.”

“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end...”

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”

“God has no religion.”

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.”

“My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York. Am I a troubled kid...”

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”

“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of t...”

“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”

“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good ag...”

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me...”

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who b...”

“Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.”

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”

“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.”

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

“Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!”

“You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”

“I was his and he was mine, and we were the beginning and middle and end. We were a song that had been sung from the very first ember of light in the world.”

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”

“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”

“How did it get so late so soon?”

“And I realized how badly I'd been treated before, if my standards had become so low. If freedom I'd been granted felt like a privilege and not an inherent right.”

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”

“Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”

“A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.”

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”