Rick Riordan Quotes

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“No, no, I never mess around.”

“Travis: I didn’t know they made permanent makeup. I looked like a clown for a month.
Connor: Yeah. They put a curse on me so that no matter what I wore, my clothes were two sizes too small and I felt like a geek.
Travis: You are a geek.”

“Nico jumped into the crowd, kicking groins, smacking faces with the flat of his blade, bashing helmets with his pommel. In ten seconds, the Romans all lay groaning and dazed on the ground.”

“Yeah, my bad," Leo muttered. "I should've crashed on one of the other islands. Oh, wait-there aren't any!"
She [Calypso] snarled and kept walking along the edge of the water.”

“For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across--hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.”

“Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. “Leave it to us, Uncle. I’ve got a plan.”
“That,” I said, “sounds like very bad news.”

“It's like I was connected to the plumping system.”

“June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?”

“Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "'clean'" it, and suddenly you can't find anything?”

“Their goal was in sight. They had a Titan with a very loud kitten on their side. That had to count for something.”

“Also, Ares developed a serious fear of jars. I think I'm going to get him a nice one for Christmas.”

“Yes, Jason Grace." Favonius arched an eyebrow. "I fell in love with a. Does that shock you?”

“Mugged by my own mother.”

“Mr. D," Grover asked timidly, "if you're not going to eat it, could I have your Diet Coke can?”

“If I ever become a king, I’m totally going to ask him for an army of giant golden acid-spitting llamas. Okay, sorry. I got distracted again.”

“Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels.”

“But yes. Come, faulty dragon people. Follow us.”

“I wanted to keep things as normal as possible for the trainees, so I led my usual morning class. I called it Magic Problem-Solving 101. The trainees called it Whatever Works.”

“After all the dangerous adventures I'd had, I couldn't die like this. Sadie would be devastated. Then, once she got over her grief, she'd track down my soul in the Egyptian afterlife and tease me mercilessly for how stupid I'd been.”

“My favorite son!" Gaea cried. "You are awesome! I knew I could count on you, uh… which one are you again?”

“Nico," he said gently, "I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest.”

“He offered to stop the tide for me once. He offered to build me a palace at the bottom of the sea.”

“I don’t leave her speechless very often. I have to enjoy those rare moments.”

“Used to be goddy Now uptown feeling shoddy Bah, haiku don’t rhyme”

“My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom.”

“Because Hope survives best at the Hearth.”

“Clovis,’ Nico growled, ‘for the gods’ sake, stop dreaming so powerfully!”

“Silena appeared out of the woods, her sword drawn. Her Aphrodite armour was pink and red, colour coordinated to match her clothes and makeup. She looked like Guerilla Warfare Barbie.”

“I tried to talk to Annabeth, but she was acting like I'd just punched her grandmother.”

“I stepped forward. Call me old-fashioned, but I wanted to keep his focus on me and not Annabeth. I think it’s polite for a guy to protect his girlfriend from instant incineration.”

“A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.”

“The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands of years.”
“Yeah,” I said. “And now they’re gone.”

“Look, I never wanted to be a half-blood. most of the time it gets you killed in nasty, dangerous ways.”

“Chiron probably wanted me to say, Heck it wa nothing. I eat hellhounds for breakfast. But I didn't feel like lying.”

“The two of them looked so comfortable together it made Nico glad. But it also it caused an ache in his heart – a ghostly pain, like an old war wound throbbing in bad weather.”

“I left him in his wheelchair, staring sadly into the fireplace. I wondered how many times he’d sat here, waiting for heroes that never came back.”

“As for her charmspeak, she’d gotten so powerful it made Leo nervous. If she told him to eat his vegetables, he might actually do it.”

“Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough.
The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse.”

“One guy wore nothing but a Speedo. He’d painted himself blue and was armed only with a baseball bat. Across his chest were the words COME AT ME, BRO.”

“Defeating one ant had taken all my energy. (I don’t think I have ever written a sadder sentence than that.)”

“They chose the olive"
"They must really like olives"
"Forget it"
"Now if she invented pizza that i can understand"
-Percy to Annabeth in the lightning theif”

“He’s a restless soul, always looking for another chance to drive,’ Nico said. ‘The last few years, he’s been my driver whenever I need one.’
‘You have a zombie chauffeur,’ Leila said.”

“I wondered if I should start a small fire in Percy Jackson's sink, perhaps burn some bandages in thanks, but I decided that might strain that Jackson's hospitality.”

“And I was holding someone who was destined to be my best friend, or possibly my worst enemy.”

“The thing about talking swords…it’s hard to tell when they’re kidding. They have no facial expressions. Or faces.”

“He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.”

“He had arrived at Camp Half-Blood thanks to Apollo. Now, on what would likely be his last day at camp, he was stuck with a son of Apollo.
‘Whatever,’ Nico said. ‘But we have to hurry. And you’ll follow my lead.”

“I turned to Thalia. ‘I’ll hold the flower while you beat up the thief?’
She sighed. ‘Fine. Let’s go catch this jerk.”

“And flash him!” Annabeth’s face reddened. “That came out wrong. But yeah, good idea.”