Quotes About Frustration

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

Leo felt trapped. He'd once been stuck in a cave on top of Pikes Peak, surrounded by a pack of werewolves. Another time he'd been stuck in an abandoned factory with a family of evil Cyclopes. But this—standing in an open clearing with a dozen pretty girls—was much worse.

Could I just use the loo?" I asked the nice officer. "No." She closed the door in my face, As if I might rig an explosion in the toilet. Honestly.

That was one of the many reasons she loved him, even if he was an Olympian-sized pain in the podex

You've probably met moms like that. You say, "Yeah, I scored a goal in the soccer game last night." And she says, "Oh, that's nice. All fourteen of my children are the captains of their teams, and they make straight A's and can play the violin." And you just want to smack her.

Amy gritted her teeth. King Louis XVI even put Franklin's picture on a chamber pot! Jonah looked at his dad. Do we have souvenir chamber pots? No. His dad whipped out his phone. I'll make the call.

Zoë threw up her hands in exasperation. I hate this language. It changes too often!

He is driven by bitterness and anger. You can understand that.' Nico wanted to yell, Like you know what I feel?

The last thing I wanted to do was blow up another school.

If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it?

It's just Annabeth mom jeez!

I smelled barbecue before I reached the house, and that made me madder than ever, because I really love barbecue.

On a bad day, he could only remember Justin Bieber songs, which didn't do anything except give me a headache.

Percy, explaining things to you is like lecturing a gerbil.

I LIKE my rivers the way I like my enemies—slow, wide, and lazy. I rarely get what I like.

Calypso: You think it's funny to send me this...this charbroiled runt of a boy to ruin my tranquility? This is NOT FUNNY! take him back! Leo: Hey, sunshine, I'm right here you know... Calypso: Do NOT call me sunshine!

Uuugggggghhhhh...

You've got to be kid- Well, crud, what just happened there? I ran out of syl-

Aha, I thought. Even among the pandai there were frustrated musicians. Amax suddenly reminded me of my father, Zeus, when he came storming down the hallway on Mount Olympus (literally storming, with thunder, lightning, and torrential rain) and ordered me to stop playing my infernal zither music. A totally unfair demand. Everyone knows 2:00 a.m. is the optimal time to practice the zither.

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say tell the truth, and when you do, they don't believe you. What's the point? - Sadie Carter (Red Pyramid)

Despite the gifts, Calypso obviously didn't want to see him. One time he poked his head inside the cave and she freaked out, yelling and throwing pots at his head. Yeah, she was definitely on Team Leo.

Otis! Will you PLEASE stop killing me!

She's touching me , George complained as he and Martha slithered around the pole. 'She's always touching you,' Hermes said. 'You are intertwined. And if you don't stop that, you'll get knotted again!

While the traffic is enough to make you scream, people are incredibly good-humored on the road. I never heard angry horns honking. One time, while stalled in a Tehran jam, people in a neighboring car saw me sitting patiently in the back of our van. They rolled down their window and handed Majid a bouquet of flowers, saying, "Give this to your visitor and apologize for our traffic.