Quotes from Rick Riordan

You mix Greek and Roman, you know what you get? You get BAM!

Hello!" The girl in the blood-red dress beamed at Leo. "Are you Dionysus?" There was only one answer to that. "Yes!" Leo yelped. "Absolutely. I am Dionysus.

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.

I stared at the river far below. Why did you park us on the mountain? Why not closer? Bast shrugged, as if this hadn't occurred to her. Cats like to get as high up as possible. In case we have to pounce on something. Great, I said. So if we have to pounce, we're all set.

My name is Zia Rashid." She tilted her head as if listening. Right on cue, the entire building rumbled. Dust sprinkled from the ceiling, and the slithering sounds of scorpion doubled in volume behind us. "And right now," Zia continued, sounding a bit disappointed, "I must save your miserable lives.

I don't expend my energy trying to fight the change of seasons. I focus on making sure the days I have, and the season I oversee, are as joyful, rich, and plentiful as possible.

Good luck is a sham. True success requires sacrifice.

Blades before babes, you know what I'm saying?

She had to face the fact that she couldn't protect everyone she loved. She couldn't solve every problem.

I turned to Thalia. 'I'll hold the flower while you beat up the thief?' She sighed. 'Fine. Let's go catch this jerk.

Don't decide yet, Hephaestus advised. Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

I'll admit that I was staring. Suddenly my whole perspective had flipped inside out, like when you look at an inkblot picture and see just the black part. Then your brain inverts the image and you realize the white part makes an entirely different picture, even though nothing has changed. That was Alex Fierro, except in pink and green. A second ago, he had been very obviously a boy to me. Now she was very obviously a girl.

Of course, even without my help, other forces would keep the cosmos chugging along. Many different belief systems powered the revolution of the planets and stars. Wolves would still chase Sol across the sky. Ra would continue his daily journey in his sun barque. Tonatiuh would keep running on his surplus blood from human sacrifices back in the Aztec days. And that other thing—science— would still generate gravity and quantum physics or whatever.

A battle can be won before it's ever fought by choosing the right ground.

June smiled. So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?

More minions!" he shouted. "Come to me!" That couldn't be good. Another round of giant crocs and we'd be dead. Why don't we get minions? I complained to Horus, but he didn't answer.

Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

Reyna had always thought of Jason Grace as the all-American boy. Thalia looked more like the girl who robbed all-American boys at knifepoint in an alley.

No, no, I never mess around.

The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands of years." "Yeah," I said. "And now they're gone.

Have you completely made up for all the bad things you've done? No. But you keep adding to the good things column. That's all any of us can do.

I would be Apollo. I would remember.

You hit the Lord of The Titans with a blue plastic hairbrush.

Had I ever been so terrified? Perhaps when Typhon raged across the earth, scattering the gods before him. Perhaps when Gaea unleashed her giants to tear down Olympus. Or perhaps when I accidentally saw Ares naked in the gymnasium. That had been enough to turn my hair white for a century.