Percy Montague Quotes

Perspective is a god damn son of a bitch. ~ Mackenzi Lee

She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce ... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life. ~ Edith Wharton

I turned and faced the Olympians.
"We need a shroud," I announced, my voice cracking. "A shroud for the son of Hermes. ~ Rick Riordan

This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dude." Jason gave Percy a bear hug.
"Back from Tartarus!" Leo whooped. "That's my peeps! ~ Rick Riordan

The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that which the habitual sense of its repeated combinations has extinguished in us. It strips, as it were, the painted curtain from this scene of things. I confess that I am one of those who are unable to refuse my assent to the conclusions of those philosophers who assert that nothing exists but as it is perceived. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard. ~ Rick Riordan

I learned a long time ago: Never bet against Annabeth. ~ Rick Riordan

I love tranquil solitude
And such society
As is quiet, wise, and good. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

That sweet sleep which medicines all pain. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Just because Jimmy Swaggart believes in God doesn't mean that God does not exist. ~ Walker Percy

Well, I certainly don't," said Percy sanctimoniously. "I shudder to think what the state of my in-tray would be if I was away from work for five days."
"Yeah, someone might slip dragon dung in it again, eh, Perce?" said Fred.
"That was a sample of fertilizer from Norway!" said Percy, going very red in the face. "It was nothing personal!"
"It was," Fred whispered to Harry as they got up from the table. "We sent it. ~ J.K. Rowling

Words are but holy as the deeds they cover. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

You haven't seen Ron or Hermione, have you?" said Harry. "No, I haven't," said Percy, his smile fading. "I hope Ron's not in another girls' toilet. ~ J.K. Rowling

Carter wagged the Yankees cap at me. 'Nekhbet wants Percy to be her host. That's one way the Egyptian gods maintain a presence in the mortal world. They can inhabit mortals' bodies.'

My stomach jackknifed. 'You want her –' I pointed at the frazzled old vulture goddess – 'to inhabit me? That sounds …'

I tried to think of a word that would convey my complete disgust without offending the goddess. I failed. ~ Rick Riordan

The conceptions which any nation or individual entertains of the God of its popular worship may be inferred from their own actions and opinions, which are the subjects of their approbation among their fellow-men. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

A U.S. Senator should have the same right as a member of the Knesset ... to disagree with any government when its actions may not be in the United States' interest. ~ Charles H. Percy

To hope until hope creates from its very own wreck the thing it contemplates. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy," Chiron said, his voice impossibly soft. "The titan Kronos is my father. ~ Rick Riordan

Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive. ~ Margaret Prescott Montague

What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile. ~ Walker Percy

The only thing they had in common was Calypso, and every time Leo thought about that he wanted to punch Percy in the face. ~ Rick Riordan

Stop!" he yelled at the others. "Multigrain fighting is not allowed! ~ Rick Riordan

The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself. ~ Percy Lubbock

Correct." Kekrops sounded bitter, like he regretted his decision. "My people were the original Athenians
the gemini."
"Like your zodiac sign?" Percy asked. "I'm a Leo."
"No, stupid. "I'm a Leo. You're a Percy. ~ Rick Riordan

Once we recognize the fact that every individual is a treasury of hidden and unsuspected qualities, our lives become richer, our judgment better, and our world is more right. It is not love that is blind, it is only the unnoticed eye that cannot see the real qualities of people. ~ Charles H. Percy

There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the funnel, which takes in at one end and lets out at the other; the strainer, which permits the wine to pass out and retains the lees; and the sieve, which separates the bran from the fine flour. ~ Ethel Percy Andrus

And in repose one might have admired so fine a specimen of English manhood, until the foppish ways, the affected movements, the perpetual inane laugh, brought one's admiration of Sir Percy Blakeney to an abrupt close. ~ Emmuska Orczy

Beckendorf closed eyes tight and brought his hand up to his watch.
from that distance, the explosion shook the world. Heat seared the back of my head. The Princess Andromeda blew up from both sides, a massive fireball of
green flame roiling into the dark sky, consuming everything ... I stared out the window into deep blue water. Beckendorf was supposed to go to college in the fall. He had a girlfriend, lots of friends, his whole life ahead of him. He couldn't be gone. ~ Rick Riordan

As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt. ~ Edwin Percy Whipple