“See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson”

“I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson (Lightning Thief)”

“I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.”

“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?Yeah. You could say that.”

“I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if I were on the verge of death-plankton maybe."-Percy Jackson”

“It wasn't exactly like talking, but it went something like this: Could you give us a ride north, Percy asked, like as close to Portland as possible?Eat seals, the whale responded. Are you seals?No, Percy admitted. I've got a man satchel full of macrobiotic beef jerky, though.The whale shuddered. Promise not to feed me this, and I will take you north.Deal.”

“See you on the other side.-Percy Jackson”