“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“Love was the most savage monster of all.”
— 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“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“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“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“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“That's it, cupcake. You're going down.”
— Rick Riordan“Does truth have a moral?”
— 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“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