Quotes from Rick Riordan

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.

What-what do you want? Annabeth asked, trying to maintain a tone of confidence. The voice cackled maliciously. 'To curse you, of course! To destroy you thousand times in the name of Mother Night!' Only a thousand times? Percy murmured. Oh, good...I thought we were in trouble.

That's why we live by a river. Occasionally, I forget and pat Lit on the back--' 'I hate that.' King Midas & Lit

I hate to tell you this," Jason said, "but I think your leopard just ate a goddess.

She pulled away. "I missed you, Percy." Percy wanted to tell her the same thing, but it seemed too small a comment. While he had been on the Roman side, he'd kept himself alive almost solely by thinking of Annabeth. I missed you didn't really cover that.

This did not seem to reassure Nico. "I don't like being in the dark," he muttered. An odd complaint for a child of Hades, but I understood what he meant.

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say "tell the truth," and when you do, they don't believe you. What's the point?

You're a strange person." "I prefer the term fabulously weird.

It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.

Erre es korakas, Blinkey! Dionysus cursed. I will have your soul! Um, he's a video game character, I said.

I stared at her. Maybe I wasn't the brightest guy in the world when it came to girls, but I was pretty sure Rachel had just dumped me, which was lame considering we'd never even been together.

Why would Gaia be back at camp?' Leo asked. 'Percy's nosebleed was here.' 'Dude,' Percy said, 'first off, you heard Athena – don't blame my nose. Second, Gaia's the earth. She can pop up anywhere she wants. Besides, she told us she was going to do this. She said the first thing on her to-do list was destroying our camp. Question is: how do we stop her?

One basketball to rule them all," Leo muttered.

Oh, Hazel is awesome, Don Said. She's so nice! All the other campers are like 'Go away Don.' But she's like 'Please go away, Don.' I love her!

Percy was eating a huge stack of blue pancakes (what was his deal with blue food?) while Annabeth chided him for pouring on too much syrup. "You're drowning them!" she complained. "Hey, I'm a Poseidon kid," he said. "I can't drown. And neither can my pancakes.

Waitress! Hedge called. Six double espressos, and whatever these guys want. Put it on the girl's tab.

Poseidon put his weathered hand on my shoulder. "Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names…well, it usually says more about them than it does about us. And you , Percy, are my favorite son.

It's not how long you live that matters. It's what you live for.

A long white ribbon shot out of the crack in the wall. The ribbon just kept coming, weaving itself into some kind of shape next to Anubis, and my first thought was, My god, he's got a magic roll of toilet paper.

I call it Andskoti, the Adversary. It is woven with the most powerful paradoxes in the Nine Worlds—Wi-Fi with no lag, a politician's sincerity, a printer that prints, healthy deep-fried food, and an interesting grammar lecture!

Juniper: Are you guys busy? Percy: Well, we're in the middle of this game against a bunch of monsters and we're trying not to die. Annabeth: We're not busy.

Ah, Senor Zhang, Leo said, you know how you're always saying, 'Leo, you are the only true genius among demigods'? I'm pretty sure I never said that.

The demigods have left for alaska, Stheno said. They fly straight to their death. Ah, small d death, I mean. Not our prisoner Death. Although, i suppose they're flying to him too.

There's no point in defending camp if you guys die. All our friends are here.