#jackson

Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I'd known what was coming, I would've called in sick. I could've avoided an army of demons, a fight with a Titan, and a trick that almost got my friends and me cast into eternal darkness. But no, I had to take my stupid English exam. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#nico-di-angelo #percy-jackson #test #thalia-grace #titan

He slung off his backpack. He'd managed to grab a lot of supplies at the Napa Bargain Mart: a portable GPS, duct tape, lighter, superglue, water bottle, camping roll, a Comfy Panda Pillow Pet (as seen on TV), and a Swiss army knife—pretty much every tool a modern demigod could want. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #supplies #television

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. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#inspirational #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #pjo #the-titan-s-curse #inspirational

You trust him, Trace, and you know it." "With my back," Trace snapped. "Not with my sister. ↗

— Lori Foster

#trace #men

We have to figure this out, Jackson, so leash the lust.” His chin went up as he stared down at her. “Woman, you ask the impossible.” “Do it anyway! ↗

— Lori Foster

#jackson-savor #men

Hope does not leave without being given permission. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#inspirational-life #percy-jackson #philosophy #the-last-olympian #inspirational

They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off. ↗

— Cole Younger

#around #before #chiefly #citizens #company

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#agreement #any #because #between #broadcast

There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed. ↗

— Shawn Colvin

#america #bars #began #eagles #easy

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

#been #chapel #copy #equivalent #jackson