Rick Riordan Quotes

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Doughboy, we need to talk. Doughboy opened his wax eyes. Finally! You realize how stuffy it is in there? At last you've remembered that you need my brilliant guidance. Actually we need to become a coat.

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If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff?

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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.

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I'm not usually an eavesdropper, but i dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult.

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Can't this thing go any faster? Thalia demanded. Zoe glared at her. I cannot control traffic. You both sound like my mother, I said. Shut up! they both said in union.

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

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Gabe scratched his double chin. "Maybe if you hurry with the seven-layer dip...And maybe if the kid apologizes for interrupting my poker game." Maybe if I kick you in your soft spot, I thought. And make you sing Soprano for a week.

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I seriously needed an extra-strength magic pillow, because my ba refused to stay put. [And no, Sadie, I don't think wrapping my head in duct tape would've worked either.]

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Stop!" he yelled at the others. "Multigrain fighting is not allowed!

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It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years.

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You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man.

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If anyone asks you if you're taken, I said, the answer is yes. I think I can live with that, he promised. Good, I said. Because you don't want to see me be cross. Too late. Shut up and dance, Walt. Shut up and dance, Walt. We did—with the music of a psychotic griffin screaming behind us, and the sirens and horns of Brooklyn wailing below. It was quite romantic.

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Monsters don't die. They just dissipate into smoke and dust, which saves heroes a lot of trouble cleaning up after a fight.

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Zia turned toward us, her expression grim. I will show you to your quarters. In the morning, your testing begins. We will see what magic you know, and how you know it. I wasn't sure what she meant by that, but I exchanged an uneasy look with Sadie. Sounds fun, Sadie ventured. And it we fail this test? Zia regarded her coldly. This is not the sort of test you fail, Sadie Kane. You pass or you die.

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Amy gritted her teeth. "King Louis XVI even put Franklin's picture on a chamber pot!" Jonah looked at his dad. "Do we have souvenir chamber pots?" "No." His dad whipped out his phone. "I'll make the call.

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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.

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Anubis frowned. He locked his very nice eyes with mine. You're not dead. No, I said. Though we're trying awfully hard.

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Lacy had warned me about Drew the first day of school. Apparently the two of them had gone to some summer camp together––blah, blah, I didn't really listen to the details––and Drew had been just as much a tyrant there.

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Tell me when it's over " Thalia said. Her eyes were shut tight. The statue was holding on to us so we couldn't fall but still Thalia clutched his arm like it was the most important thing in the world. "Everything's fine " I promised. "Are... are we very high " I looked down. Below us a range of snowy mountains zipped by. I stretched out my foot and kicked snow off one of the peaks. "Nah " I said. "Not that high.

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You spoke the truth, Percy Jackson. You are nothing like... like Hercules. I am honored that you carry this sword.

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

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Thanks for not freaking out," I said. "Oh, I'm freaking out," Paul promised, his eyes wide. "I just think it's awesome!

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Fish gathered to look at us - a school of baracudas, some curious marines. SCRAM! I told them. They swam off, but I could tell they went reluctantly. I swear I understood their intencions. They were about to star rumors flighing around the sea about the son of poseidon and some girl at the bottom of Siren Bay.

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For what it's worth: trust your feelings. I can't promise that you'll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it.

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I have lightning and wind powers," Jason reminded him. "Piper can turn beautiful and charm people into giving her BMWs. You're no more a freak than we are. And, hey, maybe you can fly, too. Like jump off a building and yell 'Flame on!'" Leo snorted. "If I did that, you would see a flaming kid falling to his death, and I would be yelling something a little stronger than 'Flame on!

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I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.

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Hermes rolled his eyes. "Surely you've seen network TV lately. It's clear they don't know whether they're coming or going. That's because Janus is in charge of programming. He loves ordering new shows and cancelling them after two episodes. God of beginnings and endings, after all. Anyway, I was bringing him some magic doormats, and I was double-parked-" "You have to worry about double-parking?" "Will you let me tell the story?" "Sorry.

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I heard Amos yell, For Brooklyn! It was an odd battle cry.

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Most helmsmen would've been satisfied with a pilot's wheel or a tiller. Leo had also installed a keyboard, monitor, aviation controls from a Learjet, a dubstep soundboard, and motion-control sensors from a Nintendo Wii. He could turn the ship by pulling on the throttle, fire weapons by sampling an album, or raise sails by shaking his Wii controllers really fast. Even by demigod standards, Leo was seriously ADHD.

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I prefer to be the noisiest thing in my environment thank you very much.

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