Rick Riordan Quotes

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I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you're going to save the world, I'm the best person to keep you from messing up.

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Ah... Much better" he said. "Backbiter, Luke called it. An appropriate name. Now that it is reforged completely, it shall indeed bite back.

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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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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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There will be guards, Bast said. And traps. And alarms. You can bet the house is heavily charmed to keep out gods. Magicians can do that? I asked. I imagined a big can of pesticide labeled God-Away.

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You will not believe me, but I am proud of your strength. Sometimes... sometimes the only way I can care for my children is to keep my distance.

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Percy Jackson: I'd like to say I took the news well. The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time.

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I held it up, and tried to channel happy dog thoughts toward Cerberus- Alpo commercials, cute little puppies, fire hydrants.

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Not knowing is half the fun," Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you? Oh, you kids! It's so cute I'm going to cry!

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Charlie …" Silena's eyes were a million miles away. "See Charlie.

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Beautiful,' Jason exclaimed. 'Piper, you... you're a knockout.

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Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady." A tear trickled down Artemis's cheek. "Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight." Stars," Zoe repeated. Her eyes fixed on the night sky. And she did not move again.

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I'm afraid not." Hades sighed. "My son here convinced me that perhaps I should prioritize my list of enemies." He glared at me with distaste. "As much as I dislike certain upstart demigods, it would not do for Olympus to fall. I would miss bickering with my siblings. And if there is one thing we agree on - it is that you were a TERRIBLE father.

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We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of those in the world?

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It'll be dangerous," Nyssa warned him. "Hardship, monsters, terrible suffering. Possibly none of you will come back alive." "Oh." Suddenly Leo didn't look so excited. Then he remembered everyone was watching. "I mean... Oh, cool! Suffering? I love suffering! Let's do this.

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

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Then there were the shabti, magical figurines that were supposed to come to life when summoned. A few months ago, I'd fallen for a girl named Zia Rashid, who'd turned out to be a shabti. Falling in love for the first time had been hard enough. But when the girl you like turns out to be ceramic and cracks to pieces before your eyes—well, it gives breaking your heart a new meaning.

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Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling as I sewed together the pockets of all the boys who'd jilted me.

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As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe.

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Cabin Fifteen does that to everyone," Annabeth warned. "If you ask me, this place is even more dangerous than the Ares cabin. At least with Ares, you can learn where the land mines are." "Land mines?

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

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

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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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