Rick Riordan Quotes (258 Quotes)

The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together.

Curled up at the base of the scales, fast asleep, was the oddest monster I'd seen yet. It had the head of crocodile with a lion's mane. The front half of its body was a lion, but the back end was sleek, brown, and fat - a hippo, I decided. The odd bit was, the animal was tiny - I mean, no larger than an average poodle, which I suppose made him a hippodoodle.

I racked my brain trying to remember the names of all of Nut's five children. Bit difficult without my brother, the human Wikipedia, around to keep track of such trivia for me.

Our baboon was going completely sky goddess - which is to say, nuts.

I told Tantalus to go chase a doughnut.

He remembered his home now, and that gave him new determination to succeed. He was fighting for two camps now -- two families.

Yours in demigodishness, and all that. Peace out!

She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts.

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.

You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.

Patterns repeat themselves in history

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

I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side.

See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.

Leo's biggest surprise: One look from Jason, and all three of them knew the game plan. When had that happened, that they could read each other so well?

Well, I hope you like it here, Leo. It used to be .......really nice.

Egyptians believe in the power of the sunrise. They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world.

I suppose with so many things suddenly getting better, the things that were still missing hurt even worse.

Out my left, I saw baboon bum, out my right, my long-lost uncle Amos. Naturally, I decided to focus on the right.

I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what.

He warned me the greediest wishes cause the greatest sorrows.

A little slower, sweetheart. Cape Cod is freezing over.

The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come to kill us.

I looked into his eyes, and I realized he was the same man I'd seen in my dreams. His face might be totally different, but the same soul was in there, the same intelligence and all the sadness.

You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you. - Pan

Perseus, you are not the hero.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.

She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish.

You assume that it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist is that?

Most problems look worse than they are. nothing is unfixable.

What about a compromise? I'll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I'll apologize.

Fairness means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

I thought about all the things I was suddenly able to do-like fight with a sword and summon a magical shell of armor. Those were not things I covered in home school.

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.

In case you're wondering, the underside of a sheep doesn't smell that great. Imagine a winter sweater that's been dragged through the mud and left in the laundry hamper for a week. Something like that.

Her name badge read: Hello! My name is DIE, DEMIGOD SCUM!

Could an Olympian parent turn against his half-blood child? Would it sometimes be easier just to let them die? If there were ever any half-bloods who needed to worry about that, it was Thalia and me. I wondered if maybe I should've sent Poseidon that seashell pattern tie for Father's Day after all.

The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.

I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Holla Mayne!

And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

Poseidon held out his arms and gave me a hug. I realized, a little embarrassed, that I'd never actually hugged my dad before. He was warm-like a regular human-and he smelled of a salty beach and fresh sea air.

Die,human! Die, silly polluting nasty person!

I wondered if Olympus had gone to a commercial break, or if our ratings had been any good.

So few people did good in their lives. It was depressing.

Your a Demigod Percy, half god and half mortal!

My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.

Which meant his only assets were one whiny imprisoned goddess, one sort-of-girlfriend with a dagger, and Leo, who apparently thought he could defeat the armies of darkness with breath mints.

Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history.