Quotes from Rick Riordan

My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.

So which way now, Sacagawea? - Annabeth to Rachel

Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!

She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard.

Far, far below, red liquid bubbled. Blood? Lava? Evil ketchup? None of the posibilities were good.

Different elevator music was playing since my last visit-that old disco song Stayin' Alive. A terrifying image flashed through my mind of Apollo in bell-bottom pants and a slinky silk shirt.

Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back.

Butch hesitated. Annabeth's okay. You gotta cut her some slack. She had a vision telling her to come here, to find a guy with one shoe. That was supposed to be the answer to her problem. What Problem? Piper asked. She's been looking for one of our campers, who's been missing three days, Butch said. She's going out of her mind with worry. She hoped he'd be here. Who? Jason asked. Her boyfriend, Butch said, A guy named Percy Jackson.

Since Percy'd lost his memory,his whole life was one big fillin-the-blank. He was____________________, from____________________. He felt like ____________________, and if the monsters caught him, he'd be____________________.

Down in the water, Octavian yelled, "Get me out of here! I'll kill you!" "Tempting," Percy called down.

Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.

They had a silent staring contest, but Percy didn't back down. When he and Annabeth started dating, his mother had drummed it into his head: It's good manners to walk your date to the door. If that was true, it had to be good manners to walk her to the start of her epic solo death quest.

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?

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Tyson pounding the Earthborn into the ground like a game of whack-a-mole. Ella was fluttering above him, dodging missiles and calling out advice: The groin. The Earthborn's groin is sensitive. SMASH! Good. Yes. Tyson found its groin.

Then there was Nico di Angelo. Dang, that kid gave Leo the freaky-deakies. He sat back in his leather aviator jacket, his black T-shirt and jeans, that wicked silver skull ring on his finger, and the Stygian sword at his side. His tufts of black hair struck up in curls like baby bat wings. His eyes were sad and kind of empty, as if he'd stared into the depths of Tartarus—which he had.

Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?' 'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.' 'But it's a dragon!

Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument.

Catch that last episode of Doctor Who? Oh, right. You were trudging through the Pit of Eternal Damnation!

Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!

Myths are simply stories about truths we've forgotten.

Looking up in the sky, I saw the stars were brighter now. They made a pattern I had never noticed before- a gleaming constellation that looked a lot like a girls figure- a girl with a bow, running across the sky. Let the world honor you, my Huntress. Live forever in the stars.

What are you talking about? Narcissus demanded. I am amazing. Everyone knows this. Amazing at pure suck, Leo said. If I was as suck as you, I'd drown myself. Oh wait, you already did that.

Red cattle, Annabeth said. The cattle of the sun. What? I [Percy] asked. They're sacred to Apollo. Holy cows?

They sped by a pack of sea lions lounging on the docks, and she swore she saw an old homeless guy sitting among them. From across the water the old man pointed a bony finger at Percy and mouthed something like 'Don't even think about it.' Did you see that? Hazel asked. Percy's face was red in the sunset. Yeah. I've been here before. I...I don't know. I think I was looking for my girlfriend. Annabeth, Frank said. You mean, on your way to Camp Jupiter? Percy frowned. No. Before that.