Blackjack Quotes

“God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude!
Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

“Blackjack," Percy said, "this is Piper and Jason. They're friends."
The horse nickered.
"Uh, maybe later," Percy answered.
Piper had heard that Percy could speak to horses, being the son of the horse lord Poseidon, but she'd never seen it in action.
"What does Blackjack want?" she asked.
"Donuts," Percy said. "Always donuts.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“I uncapped the blade, flung open the door, and found myself face-to-face with a black pegasus.

Whoa, boss! Its voice spoke in my mind as it clopped away from the sword blade. I don't wanna be a horse-ke-bob!”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

“Hey, why do pegasi gallop as they fly, anyway?"

Blackjack whinnied. Why do humans swing their arms as they walk? I dunno, boss. It just feels right.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“Then something occurred to me.
"Get closer," I told Blackjack.
He whinnied in protest.
"Just within shouting distance," I said. "I need to talk to the statue."
Now I'm sure you've lost it, boss, Blackjack said”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“It's hard to walk away from a winning streak, even harder to leave the table when you're on a losing one.”
― Cara Bertoia, Cruise Quarters - a Novel About Casinos and Cruise Ships

“Coincidence doesn't happen a third time.”
― Osamu Tezuka

“The others were a little surprised when Piper came back on a pegasus with two unconscious demigods.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and demoralized and in whom he had left his seed so their bastard children would be a daily visual reminder of what a plantation white man could do to a plantation black woman whenever he wanted, nor could he count the black men whom he had made fear his blackjack as they would fear Satan himself, making each of them a lifetime enemy of all white people.”
― James Lee Burke, Jolie Blon's Bounce

“Then a shadow swooped under me, and thump - I was on Blackjack's back. It wasn't the most comfortable landing. In fact, when I yelled "OW!" my voice was an octave higher than usual.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“El sol y la luna atestiguan, distantes, el comienzo de muchos finales.”
― Nathalia Tórtora, BlackJack (3241)

“He gets a little distracted in the springtime when he's searching the skies for cute lady pegasi.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Singer of Apollo