Rick Riordan Quotes

All right, ’ Nico relented. ‘Maybe a little …’ He managed to take off his aviator jacket and wad it into a pillow before he keeled over and began to snore.

You drool in your sleep- Annabeth Chase

With great power comes a great need to take a nap.

Etiquette tip: If you're looking for the right time to leave a party, when the host yells, "No one leaves here alive, " that's your cue.

I'm gonna be percy Jackson when I grow up, " she told Hazel solemnly.Hazel Smiled and ruffled her hair. "That's a good thing to be, Julia.""Although, " Frank said. "Frank Zhang would be good too.

The first time Calypso came to check on [Leo], it was to complain about the noise.“Smoke and fire, ” she said. “Clanging on metal all day long. You’re scaring away the birds!”“Oh, no, not the birds!

She decided to make his life as terrible, tragic and complicated as possible, so that some day Percy Jackson would have a really hard time writing about it.

Normally ghosts didn't scare him. (Assuming, of course, Gaea hadn't encased them in shells of stone and turned them into killing machines. That had been a new one for him.)

As a general rule, I preferred not to have my soul reaped.

Don't decide yet, " Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434).

Maybe it's okay to be a kid once in a while.

Where his eyes should’ve been, there was only fire, empty sockets glowing with miniature nuclear explosions.

Oh, yeah?" Leo growled. "Well, maybe you got the smoke, buddy, but I've got the fire.

Things can turn out differently, Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.

Because I’m not normal, ” I said.“You say that as if it’s a bad thing, Percy. But you don’t realize how important you are.

Brother, " Artemis chided. "You do not help my hunters. You do not look at, talk to, or flirt with my Hunters. And you do not call them sweetheart.

This is the average age of my Hunters, and all young maidens for whom I am patron, before they go astray.""Go astray?""Grow up. Become smitten with boys. Become silly, preoccupied, insecure.

He just summoned the dead with coke and cheeseburgers

Percy (to Annabeth): If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick you.Silena: Awww . . . Percy, that is so sweet!Annabeth: Shut up, Silena.

Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt."You're a genius, " I (Percy) told Annabeth.

Yeah, Hera was definitely channelling her inner Wicked Witch of the West that day.

No Tyson, the guy in the story did not attract the attention of a moose. Tyson is sad now.

Ask me again, once we defeat Gaea.

Wow, " Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot." "He's the sun god, " I said."That's not what I meant.

Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works.I am praying. I'm talking to you, right?Oh...yes. Good point. Amphitrite - incoming!

I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta."Leo snorted. "What's a wine god doing in Kansas? Gods are weird.

Aretmis gripped her bow. “Let us pray I am wrong.”Can goddesses pray?

Apollo?” I guessed…He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.”A god named Fred?

But too much love is poison, especially when that love is not returned

I don’t belong here, ” I said. “I don’t even believe in gods.”“Yeah, ” he said. “That’s how we all started. Once you start believing in them? It doesn’t get any easier.

The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction!-Bacchus

Um, sorry. I cant read the last line.""Fish. Have you stolen any fish from the holy lakes?""I lived in Kansas..So ..no

Hazel frowned. "Why that one?""You don't see the ghost?" Frank asked."Ghost?" Nico asked.Okay... if Frank was seeing a ghost that the Underworld kids couldn't see, something was definitely wrong.

A father should do more - a father should give more to his children than he takes.

Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth.

The dead praetor raised his sword. ''Our desires reveal us. They show us for who we really are. Someone has come come for you, Jason Grace.

Then the glow grew brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey.A boy in the crowd gasped. "She's a communist!

THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD!!!!

We could use some good luck. That doesn’t mean we’ll get it.

It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.

A faint smile played on his lips. "Obedience does not come naturally to you, does it""No...sir""I must take some blame for that, I suppose. The sea does not like to be restrained.

Khione’s eyes flared pure white. For once, she seemed at a loss for words. She stormed back up the stairs—literally. Halfway up, she turned into a blizzard and disappeared.

They're Lares. House gods.""House gods, " Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods?

Aphrodite: Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.Percy: But... I don't know where it's going. My heart, I mean.

Those movies... ridiculously inaccurate. The real gods of Asgard — Thor, Loki, Odin, and the rest — are much more powerful, much more terrifying than anything Hollywood could concoct.

Excercise is nothing more than a depressing reminder that one is not a god.

I sort of fell.""Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet?

My two greatest loves were, of course, Daphne and Hyacinthus, but when you're a god as popular as

But like I told you guys years ago: this demigod gig is dangerous. Don't say I didn't warn you.