Quotes from Rick Riordan

You may choose to believe or not, but the fact is that immortal means immortal. Can you imagine that for a moment, never dying? Never fading? Existing, just as you are, for all time?

Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again.

Damien Vesper Didn't plan on killing anyone today

Leo plunked the cheese wheel in front of me. Cut me a wedge of this, my good ma. Chop-chop! I scowled at him. Don't test me, Valdez. When I am a god again, I will make a constellation out of you. I will call it the Small Exploding Latino. I like it! He patted my shoulder, causing my knife to jiggle. Did no one fear the wrath of the gods any more?

She sacrificed her life to make things right, Mitchell grumbled. She[Silena Beuregard] was a hero

You're late,' she announced. Her eyes gleamed. 'Sorry, Sunshine,' Leo said. 'Traffic was murder.' 'You are covered with soot,' she noted. 'And you managed to ruin the clothes I made for you, which were impossible to ruin.' 'Well, you know.' Leo shrugged. Somebody had released a hundred pachinko balls in his chest. 'I'm all about doing the impossible.

The manager turned up his palms. I don't have those answers, Samirah, but Huginn and Muninn will brief you privately. Go with them to the high places of Valhalla. Let them show you thoughts and memories. To me, that sounded like some trippy vision quest with Darth Vader appearing in a foggy cave.

Very well. But I have warned you. In this pages, only suffering awaits.

Well," he said at last, "if you guys elect me leader, you must be even crazier than I am. So let's build a spankin' hot war machine!

Dwarves sat on stoops, clapping and cheering as we ran by. A few of them recorded videos of us on uniquely crafted smartphones. I figured our attempted getaway would go viral on the Dwarven Internet, famous among Internets.

Exercise is nothing more than a depressing reminder that one is not a god.

Okay, Coach Hedge whispered. Here's the plan- Leo elbowed him You are not charging him alone! Aw, c'mon.

I wanted to be the harbinger of ice cream, or falafel.

Suddenly he thought of Bob. Tell the sun and stars hello for me. Percy's smile melted. Bob and Damasen had sacrificed their lives so that Percy and Annabeth could sit here now, enjoying the sunlight and laughing with their friends. It wasn't fair.

Nico grinned, which hurt his face muscles. He wasn't used to making that expression.

It's ok, Percy said. We're together.

The only difference between a satyr and a faun," I said, "is what we see in them. And what they see in themselves. Plant this tree somewhere special." I looked up at the dryads. "Tend it and make it grow healthy and tall. This was Don the faun, a hero.

Across the field, Carter's voice yelled: 'STAHP!' I guess stahp is actually a word in Ancient Egyptian. Who knew?

He's a little grumpy," Asclepius said. "People are always confusing my staff with the staff of Hermes, which has two snakes, obviously. Over the centuries, people have called Hermes's staff the symbol of medicine, when of course it should be my staff. Spike feels slighted. George and Martha get all the attention. Anyway...

For a moment, Nico felt like a little kid again. He was tempted to blurt out: That's so cool! Even before he got into Mythomagic, he'd been obsessed with pirates. Probably that was one reason he'd been so smitten with Percy, a son of the sea god.

Lemurs? Frank asked nervously. I'm guessing you don't mean the furry little guys from Madagascar?

But in that moment, I knew it wasn't just the poison that was killing her. It was her fathers final blow. Zoë had known all along that the Oracle's prophecy was about her: she would die by a parent's hand. And yet she'd taken the quest anyway. She had chosen to save me, and Atlas's fury had broken her inside.

Getting a second life is one thing. Making it a better life, that's the trick.

you… even in the midst of thousands, you. Are. Still. Alone.