Quotes from Rick Riordan

The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car. Up until then I was having a great afternoon.

The Feast of Fortuna had nothing to do with tuna, which was fine with Percy.

I didn't understand how. But the toilets had responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing...

After the satyrs filed in to dinner, the Hermes cabin brought up the rear. They were always the biggest cabin. Last summer it had been led by Luke, the guy who fought with Thalia and Annabeth on top of Half-Blood Hill. For a while, before Poseidon had claimed me, I'd lodged in the Hermes cabin. Luke had befriended me...and then he'd tried to kill me.

Rowww!" Bast wailed. The wrecking ball rolled straight over her, but she didn't appear hurt. She leaped off and pounced aain. Her knives sliced through the metal like wet clay. Within seconds, the wrecking ball was reduced to a mound of scraps. Bast sheathed her blades. "Safe now." "You saved us from a metal ball," Sadie said. "You never know," Bast said. "It could've been hostile.

Neither torch nor dagger, Annabeth said firmly. There is a third test, which I will pass. A third test? the pater demanded. Mithras was born from rock, Annabeth said, hoping she was right. He emerged fully grown from the stone, holding his dagger and torch. The screaming and wailing told her she had guessed correctly. The big mother knows all! a ghost cried. That is our most closely guarded secret! Then maybe you shouldn't put a statue of it on your altar, Annabeth thought.

Power makes good people uneasy rather than joyful or boastful. That's why good people so rarely rise to power.

Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.

Snake people do not drink milk, Kekrops said. We are lactose intolerant reptiles. Me too! Frank said. I mean . . . lactose intolerant. Not a reptile. Though I can be a reptile sometimes-

I looked across the river to Manhattan. It was a great view. When Sadie and I had first arrived at Brooklyn House, Amos had told us that magicians tried to stay out of Manhattan. He said Manhattan had other problems--whatever that meant. And sometimes when I looked across the water, I could swear I was seeing things. Sadie laughed about it, but once I thought I saw a flying horse. Probably just the mansion's magic barriers causing optical illusions, but still, it was weird.

Will Solace sighed. He was, of course, tied to Nico. He propped his elbow on Nico's shoulder as if the son of Hades were a convenient shelf.

Leo's biggest surprise: One look from Jason, and all three of them knew the game plan. When had that happened, that they could read each other so well?

Check your spam folder The prophecies might be there No? Well, I'm stumped. Bye

Hope survives best at the hearth.

Nothing? Favonius cried. The one you care for most... plunged into Tartarus, and you still will not allow the truth? Suddenly Jason felt like he was eavedropping. The one you care for most.

Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.

Very good, Jason Grace, Notus said. You are a son of Jupiter, yet you have chosen your own path- as all the greatest demigods have done before you. You cannot control your parentage, but you can choose your legacy.

Whathat! Tyson gasped. Those are the stables for the pegasi, I replied, You know, winged horses? Whasthat! Um... those are the toilets.

That awkward moment when you jump out a window because your friend jumped out a window, then you remember that your other friend can fly.

There are parties and then there are huge major blowout parties. And then there are Olympian parties. If you ever get a choice go for the Olympian.

Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate

Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important.

So I took her hand, and I don't know what everybody else heard, but to me it sounded like a slow dance: a little sad, but maybe a little hopeful, too.

You... The centaur's eyes flared like a cornered animal's. You should be dead.