Quotes About Longing

It almost made me long for the flying pig. --Percy

She pulled away. "I missed you, Percy." Percy wanted to tell her the same thing, but it seemed too small a comment. While he had been on the Roman side, he'd kept himself alive almost solely by thinking of Annabeth. I missed you didn't really cover that.

Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important.

Gods forbid if she ever broke up with him. She'd never be able to visit the sea again without remembering her broken heart. Annabeth about Percy

I was glad to be with her, but it also kind of hurt, and it hurt when I wasn't with her, too.

I missed him so much I would sometimes turn to tell him something before I forgot he was gone. In spite of all that, and all the emotion boiling around inside me, all I could think of to say was: "You're blue.

But too much love is poison, especially when that love is not returned.

For the rest of my life I would be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest WHAT IF.

He had a crush on a blueberry bush once.

After his experience with Minos, Nico realized that most spectres held only as much power as you allowed them to have. They pried into your mind, using fear or anger or longing to influence you. Nico had learned to shield himself. Sometimes he could even turn the tables and bend ghosts to his will.

She would always be my biggest what if.

But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn't want to be without her.

This is the trouble with all happiness -all of it is built on top of something men want.

Exquisitely painful, isn't it? Not being sure who you love and loves you? -Aphrodite

Leo fell in love with every girl he saw-as long as she was completely out of his league.

I told you I try not to live in the past and nothing could change the fact that my mum was gone. But I'm a liar. The truth was, I'd had one dream ever since I was six: to see my mum again. To actually get to know her, talk to her, go shopping, do anything. Just be with her once so I could have a better memory to hold on to.

If I had still been an immortal, I might have flirted with her myself. But I was now a sixteen-year-old boy. My mortal form was working its way upon my state of mind. I saw Sally Jackson as a mom—a fact that both consternated and embarrassed me. I thought about how long it had been since I had called my own mother. I should probably take her to lunch when I got back to Olympus.

I pictured my mom, alone in our little apartment on the Upper East Side. I tried to remember the smell of her blue waffles in the kitchen. It seemed so far away.

As I sailed into the lake I realized the Fates really were cruel. They sent Calypso someone she couldn't help but love. But it worked both ways. For the rest of my life I would be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if.

she was just like everyone else, she wanted to love someone. Even better if they loved you in return.

Ursula found herself dwelling on Hugh's death, his absence more than his death.

Home was an idea, and like Arcadia it was lost in the past. She

Life's too short," she said. There were days when Jackson thought life was too long.

Home... wasn't Egerton Gardens, wasn't even Fox Corner. Home was an idea, and like Arcadia it was lost in the past.