Rick Riordan citations

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“Stupides dieux des montagnes! hurla Léo. C’est la troisième fois que je remplace mon mât! Vous croyez que ça pousse sur les arbres ou quoi?
– Ben, répliqua Nico en fronçant les sourcils, les mâts sont faits avec des troncs d’arbre, non?
– C’est pas la question!”

“La connaissance ne s'offre pas. Elle se recherche et s'acquiert.”

“L’équipage se rassembla pour une réunion improvisée sur le pont avant, principalement parce que Percy surveillait un serpent de mer géant qui évoluait entre les vagues, à bâbord.
– Il est méchamment rouge, ce monstre, murmura Percy. Je me demande s’il est aromatisé grenadine?
– Si tu sautais à l’eau pour vérifier? lui lança Annabeth.
– Peut-être pas, nan.”

“Frank attrapa un des pancakes, le roula et l’entama. Il n’était pas du genre à se laisser couper l’appétit par un risque de mort imminente.”

“Bref, dit Frank, d’après mes cousins de Pylos, le dieu enchaîné qu’on doit trouver à Sparte est mon père. Enfin, Arès, pas Mars. Apparemment, les Spartiates gardaient dans leur ville une statue de lui couvert de chaînes pour que l’esprit de la guerre ne les quitte jamais.
– D’accord, dit Léo. Les Spartiates étaient grave zoum-zoum. En même temps, nous, avec la Victoire ficelée dans l’écurie, on peut pas la ramener.”

“Avance, avance, se disait-il. Cheeseburgers, lui répondait son estomac. La ferme, pensait-il. Avec des frites, gémissait son estomac.”

“Nico s’avança. – J’ai communiqué avec les morts hier soir. Il pouvait balancer ce genre de phrases comme ça, aussi facilement qu’il aurait dit : J’ai reçu un texto d’un pote.”

“Annabeth se frotta les yeux en se demandant si elle rêvait toujours. – C’est une quatre fromages ?!”

“Exact, répondit Cécrops avec amertume, comme s’il regrettait ses décisions. Mes sujets étaient les premiers Athéniens, les gémeaux.
– Comme ton signe astrologique? demanda Percy. Moi je suis Lion.
– Mais non, dit Léo. Tu dois être Poissons, toi. Lion, c’est pour Léo.”

“Di Immortales!”

“Curse us eh/I'll make you pay!/I don't want to rhyme all day!”

“Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.”

“Swords can’t solve every problem.”

“Hi,” Piper said, as casually as she could. “We’re back.”

“This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world.”
“Michael Jackson lived here?”
“No, dummy,” Carter said. “Elvis Presley.”

“Why are they so sad?” I asked.
“Well, they’re dead,” Carter speculated.”

“You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man.”

“Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important.”

“Must’ve been hard on your mom,” Frank said. “I guess we’ll do anything for someone we love.”
Hazel squeezed his hand appreciatively. Nico stared at the cobblestones. “Yeah,” he said bitterly. “I guess we will.”

“The world may need fixing, but it's worth preserving.”

“I’m sorry I can’t do more. But happy birthday, Sadie.”
He leaned forward and kissed me on the lips.”

“Many of the best traps are simple. You just have to think about it, and hope your victim doesn't.”

“I am Hel,” she agreed. “Sometimes called Hela, though most mortals dare not speak my name at all. No jokes, Magnus Chase? Who the Hel are you? What the Hel do you want? You look Hela bad. I was expecting more bravado.”

“Cupid said, smashing another skeleton to pieces."Nico," Jason managed to say, "it's okay. I get it."

Nico glanced over, pain and misery washing across his face.

"No you don't," he said. "There's no way you can understand."Cupid chided.”

“Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.”

“Dude." Jason gave Percy a bear hug.
"Back from Tartarus!" Leo whooped. "That's my peeps!”

“As Hazel marched down the hill, she cursed in Latin. Percy didn’t understand all of it, but he got,, and a few choice suggestions about where Octavian could stick his knife.”

“Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus?
Athena's answer : What an interesting idea… No, just kidding, Dad. Put away the lightning bolt.”

“I pulled out Riptide.”

“You will not find love where you wish or where you hope.”

“It'sloot!" he yelled, standing on his tiptoes so he could get in Clarisse's face. "If you don't like it, you can kiss my quiver!”

“A weapon, I told Horus. I need a weapon.
I reached into the Duat and pulled out an ostrich feather.
“Really?” I yelled.
Horus didn’t answer”

“Nike could start you two fighting easily.” Percy gave her a sideways smile. “Yeah, we can’t have another incident like in Kansas. I might kill my bro Jason.” “Or I might kill my bro Percy,” Jason said amiably. “Which proves my point,” Annabeth said.”

“Thank Ra!” She exclaimed.
“Yeah, I’m alive.”
“No, I almost jumped in after you. I hate the water!”

“Ah, Senor Zhang," Leo said, "you know how you're always saying, 'Leo, you are the only true genius among demigods'?"
"I'm pretty sure I never said that.”

“He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd turned middle-aged in a trailer park.”

“Nothing like ADHD and a good fight to the death to make time fly”

“It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years.”

“Don't worry, goat boy. The milkman is dead.”