Quotes from Rick Riordan

Just don't ask me to deliver any more satyr babies and we'll get along great.

Then Thalia Grace became their leader and started recruiting even more young women to their cause, which grated on Nico – as if Bianca's death could be forgotten. As if she could be replaced.

Hello George. Hey Martha (Percy) Did you bring us a rat? (George) George, stop it!He's busy! (Martha) Too busy for rats? That's just sad. (George)

I saw my problem immediately. I should never have introduced Alex to Percy Jackson. She had learned way too much from his relentless training methods. Maybe Alex couldn't summon sea animals, but she could turn into them. That was just as bad.

And now, Anubis, I find you in this den of iniquity, this morass of questionable behavior, this...this--' 'School?

If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?

Sorry if that offends your sense of right and wrong. Oh wait. No, I'm not.

Did he just call his hammer Mee-Mee? - Magnus

Leo had wanted to paint a giant message on the bottom of the hull-WASSUP? with a smiley-face-but Annabeth had vetoed the idea.

Alabaster, you told me earlier that heroes don't die. You may be right, but I can tell you one thing. Claymore looked the boy in the eyes. I'm not a hero.

He didn't want to spend the rest of his life looking like an extra from The Walking Dead.

Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent.

Goodbye, Apollo,' said the Sibyl's voice, clearer now. 'I forgive you. Not because you deserve it. Not for your sake at all. But because I will not go into oblivion carrying hate when I can carry love.

No man may be completely invulnerable.

I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if I were on the verge of death-plankton maybe. -Percy Jackson

How flattering," I grumbled. "My soul glows.

I guess once in a while we all need a wake-up call from somebody who loves us.

The wand ricocheted through the swarm, thumping six, seven, eight of the little monsters before returning to Carter's hand. "Not bad," I said. "Keep it up!

We hurtled through the sky like things that hurtle through the sky. The wind whipped my face. The snow blinded me. The cold was so bad it made me cold. Okay, yeah, the mead of poetry definitely wasn't working.

Juno: The heroes of olympus must unite! After your victory over kronos in manhattan...well I fear that wounded jupiter's self-esteem. Percy: Cause I was right and he was wrong Juno: He should be used to that after being married to me so long, but alas.

I will tell you a secret, Andiron said. When I whispered into that well, I made a wish. I wanted to be as kind and as good as you, brother. You are perfect.

Amos sipped his coffee. The faraway look on his face reminded me of my dad. "I don't want to scare you." "Too late.

Immortals are constrained by ancient rules. But a hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve. -Chiron

The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head.