Quotes About Determination

Annabeth sat up and glared at her ankle. You HAD to break, she scolded it. The ankle did not reply.

Far below, I heard Cacus bellowing as millions, maybe even thousands of filthy gallons of water slammed into him. Meanwhile, Annabeth alternately shouted, gagged, hit me, called me endearing pet names like, Idiot! Stupid--dirty--moron-- and topped it all off with Kill you!

Even when she looked scared, she had a lot of guts.

I don't see that we have much choice, I said, since we don't have anyone who can grow wings. I will push you off this mountain, Sam warned. All right, Blitzen decided, let's try it. I mean the rune, not pushing Magnus off the mountain.

Like me, he had decided that Piper McLean would not die tonight. For some reason, he had decided that I must live too. He yelled again, 'GO! Remember!' (...) While Jason's back was turned, Caligula wheeled about. He threw his spear, driving its point between Jason's shoulder blades. Piper screamed. Jason stiffened, his blue eyes wide in shock.

Jason sighed miserably. "That's supposed to be my job. I'm always the one who gets knocked in the head.

Oh, yeah? Leo growled. Well, maybe you got the smoke, buddy, but I've got the fire.

When weak, act strong.

Percy pushed on his side furiously and the crack closed. His eyes blazed with anger. She hoped he wasn't mad at her, but if he was she couldn't blame him. If it keeps him going, she thought, then let him be angry.

It was the heaviest thing I'd ever felt, as if I were being crushed under a thousand trucks. I wanted to black out from the pain, but I breathed deeply. I can do this.

If you don't like it you can kiss my quiver

Stand your ground! Stheno yelled. I've got free samples!

Leo grabbed the neasrest thing he could find- a Porta-Potty seat- and threw it at the face. Leve me alone!

I'm scared, Nico mumbled. He was fiddling with something—a little metal toy soldier of some kind. Stop talking! Dr. Thorn said. Face me!

That's more like it. Let's turn this tide!

Get up seaweed brain

That wasn't my future I destroyed,' she assured herself. 'I make my own future.

Of course, Annabeth wouldn't be able to breathe, but at the moment, that seemed like a minor problem.

You're a stalker with hooves.

Percy stared at his jelly donut. He had a rocky history with Nico di Angelo. The guy had once tricked him into visiting Hades's palace, and Percy had ended up in a cell. But most of the time, Nico sided with the good guys. He certainly didn't deserve slow suffocation in a bronze jar, and Percy couldn't stand seeing Hazel in pain. We'll rescue him, he promised her. We have to. The prophecy says he holds the key to endless death.

Her secret fear? Maybe she didn't tried hard enough.

I found that things weren't going well upstairs. Carter was a crumpled heap of chicken warrior on the slope of the pyramid.

This is for Phoebe,' she snarled in his ear. 'For Kinzie. For all those you killed. You will die at the hands of a girl.' Orion thrashed and fought, but Reyna's will was unshakeable. The power of Athena infused her cloak. Bellona blessed her with strength and resolve. Not one but two powerful goddesses aided her, yet the kill was for Reyna to complete. Complete it she did.

No matter how many times Percy killed them and watched them crumble to powder, they just kept re-forming like large evil dust bunnies.