Fate and Free Will Quotes in The Blood of Olympus

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #1

You can't choose your parentage. But you can choose your legacy. (3.60)

This is like the fate vs. free will version of "you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose." Okay, maybe not…but it shows Jason both as a product of his parents (fate) and with the ability to choose his own path (free will).

Quote #2

"The earth will swallow you," Hedge said in the voice of Gaea. "Just as it swallowed them." (7.79)

Bad guys love to make declarations like this, mixing prophecy and threat together. (Throphecy?) But this one actually kind of comes true: the ground gets all goopy when Gaea is raised.

Quote #3

[Leo's] destiny was with somebody else, on an island that no man ever found twice. (9.61)

Do you think Leo's attraction to Calypso is fate or true love? Is there a difference between the two?