Rick Riordan Quotes

He was beautiful the way an angel is beautiful - timeless, perfect, remote.

A battle can be won before it's ever fought by choosing the right ground.

We swallowed a few bites-not to much scince the food of the gods can burn you to ashes is you overindulge. I guess thats why you don't see many fat gods

Want a cookie,' Ra said. 'What kind?' 'Weasel cookie.' I'm here to tell you, that comment about weasel cookies probably saved the known universe.

Is Tyson okay?' I asked. The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. 'He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though 'peanut butter' is a strange battle cry.

I tried to tell them that things would be okay, but I didn't believe it.

Percy was not feeling the love.

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

Armed with my sword and wand, I was all set for a stroll through the swamp to look for a hungry monster. Oh, joy!

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

People of Earth, I come in peace!

back from when they watched black and white TV and hunted dinosaurs.

Am I a troubled kid? Yeah, you could say that.

I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect." "To build something permanent," I said. "A monument to last a thousand years.

As long as we're together

How old is she now?" he asked. "Hard to say. She was a tree for a while. Now she's immortal.

Thank Artemis, it is you! That little scar on your lip--you tried to eat a stapler when you were two!" ... Hedge nodded like he approved of Jason's taste. "Staplers--excellent source of iron.

Annabeth’s hand slipped into mine. Under different circumstances I would’ve been embarrassed, but here in the dark I was glad to know where she was. It was about the only thing I was sure of.

Vitellius would've given Percy an hour-long lecture on the subject, probably with a PowerPoint presentation.

Feel the wrath of wheat!

I apologize for apologizing." "Thank you.

All da ladies love Leo!!

Leo fell in love with every girl he saw-as long as she was completely out of his league.

The store had a hand-painted sign the read: MOOSE PASS GAS. "That's just wrong," Frank said.

Bad Cyclops Lady!" he bellowed. "General Tyson says GO AWAY!

Leo had wanted to paint a giant message on the bottom of the hull-WASSUP? with a smiley-face-but Annabeth had vetoed the idea.

Hold up." Leo stepped forward, wagging his Wii controller. "Did you just call my a ship a monstrosity? I KNOW you didn't that.

The others strapped themselves below - except for Coach Hedge, who insisted on clinging to the forward rail, yelling, "YEAH! Bring it on, Lake!

Annabeth sat up and glared at her ankle. "You HAD to break," she scolded it. The ankle did not reply.

Percy yelled. "What's going- Gah! Shrimpzilla!

Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I’m just smoke. She can’t touch me, right? He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!

I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster." End of discussion.The Titan hefted his spear and they continued marching into the gloom.

Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.

Akmon squealed with delight. “I knew you were as smart as Hercules! I will call you Black Bottom, the Sequel!

Nico leaned over and plucked a grape. Probably that was the guy’s entire diet for the day.

The way Leo figured it, he spent more time crashing than he did flying. If there was a rewards card for frequent crashers, he'd be, like, double platinum level.

Bob says hello," He told the stars. The Argo II sailed into the night.

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.

Any moment now..." The girl [Calypso] stared out at the water. No magical raft appeared. "Maybe it got stuck in a traffic," Leo said.

He understood how dangerous oaths could be. But Leo didn't care. "I'm coming back for you, Calypso," he said to the night wind. "I swear it on the River Styx.

Caesar broke the law when he crossed the Rubicon," Frank said. "Great leaders have to think out side the box sometimes.

You will not believe me, but I am proud of your strength. Sometimes. . . sometimes the only way I can care for my children is to keep my distance.

You mix Greek and Roman, you know what you get? You get BAM!

Well that was sucktastic

The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.

I (Percy) set Nico on guard duty with Beckendorf and the Stoll brothers, figuring he'd be safely out of the way. ... "What's happening?" Nico demanded, trying to climb up next to me.

Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted.

I saw 'The 39 Clues' as a potential vehicle for doing some education in a fun way - to take some of these amazing stories from history, dust them off and make them alive.

Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

Stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!