“You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.”
— Rick Riordan“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
— Rick Riordan“Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.”
— Rick Riordan“Great victory requires great risk.-Hera”
— Rick Riordan“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
— Rick Riordan“Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy’s ear. “I love you.”She wasn’t sure he could hear her—but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words.”
— Rick Riordan“Love was the most savage monster of all.”
— Rick Riordan“You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought.”
— Rick Riordan“Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are”
— Rick Riordan“A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.”
— Rick Riordan“Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.”
— Rick Riordan“Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”
— Rick Riordan“Rachel: You're a half-blood, too?Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about?Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren't human! They're half Greek god!...They don't seem to care.”
— Rick Riordan“It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up.”
— Rick Riordan“She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish.”
— Rick Riordan“This is Annabeth,” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people.”
— Rick Riordan“She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts.”
— Rick Riordan“My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.Am I a troubled kid?Yeah. You could say that.”
— Rick Riordan“Leo couldn't help smiling. That could be fun.Fun she said unhappily.Blue elephants.Blue elephants.Kiss me you fool.You fool.”
— Rick Riordan“Right, she said, We're going to the Land of the Dead and I shouldn't think negative.”
— Rick Riordan“Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.”
— Rick Riordan“Leo frowned at the giant's spire. Can't we blow it up or something?Without me, you do not have the power, Hera said. You might as well try to destroy a mountain.Done that once today, Jason said.”
— Rick Riordan“Hmm…” Jason snapped his fingers. “I can call a friend for a ride.”Percy raised his eyebrows. “Oh, yeah? Me too. Let's see whose friend gets here first.”
— Rick Riordan“Five syllables, Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. That would be real bad.”
— Rick Riordan“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.”
— Rick Riordan“She wondered if it was her stupid mother, the goddess of love, messing with her thoughts. If Piper started getting urges to read fashion magazines, she was going to have to find Aphrodite and smack her.”
— Rick Riordan“Are you guys busy? Juniper asked. Well, I said, we're in the middle of this game against a bunch of monsters and we're trying not to die. We're not busy, Annabeth said.”
— Rick Riordan“Did someone just call me the ?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, please. Or Mr. Bacchus. Or Lord Bacchus. Or, sometimes, Oh-My-Gods-Please-Don’t-Kill-Me, Lord Bacchus.”
— Rick Riordan“Percy was getting tired of water.If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Poseidon’s Junior Sea Scouts, but he didn’t care.”
— Rick Riordan“Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war.The plant war, Percy said. You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles?”
— Rick Riordan“The Princess Andromeda?Went ka-boom.”
— Rick Riordan“Nosoi?” Percy planted his feet in a fighting stance. “You know, I keep thinking, I have now killed every single thing in Greek mythology. But the list never seems to end.”“You haven’t killed me yet,” I noted.“Don’t tempt me.”
— Rick Riordan“Fortunately, we did most of our athletic stuff inside, so we didn't have to jog through Tribeca looking like a bunch of boot-camp hippie children.”
— Rick Riordan“That's it, cupcake. You're going down.”
— Rick Riordan“Does truth have a moral?”
— Rick Riordan“So,’ Nico said, ‘since we’re going to be spending at least a year seeing each other at camp, I think I should clear the air.’ Percy’s smile wavered. ‘What do you mean?”
— Rick Riordan“We’re fine.’ A few feet away, Aurum snarled quietly, which meant Nico was lying.”
— Rick Riordan“He hated when his own advice applied to himself.”
— Rick Riordan“Two farewell gifts, Sadie muttered, from two gorgeous guys. I hate my life.”
— Rick Riordan“Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other.”
— Rick Riordan“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”
— Rick Riordan“Percy let me go, she croaked. You can't pull me up. Never”
— Rick Riordan