Quotes from Rick Riordan

I'll distract them," Carter said. "You search. The Trophy room is through there." "Carter!" But the fool ran off to protect me. I hate when he does that.

And is was the best underwater kiss of all time

The place went on forever-like Costco or a chemistry lecture.

He is driven by bitterness and anger. You can understand that.' Nico wanted to yell, Like you know what I feel?

Great leaders have to think outside the box sometimes.

A moose tried to eat us, Hearth signed. "Excuse me?" I asked. "A moose?" Hearth grunted in exasperation. He spelled out: D-E-E-R. Same sign for both animals. "Oh, that's much better," I said. "A deer tried to eat you.

After you reach the number impossible , there's no point in counting.

WE ARE THE KOURETES! one shouted at the top of his lungs WE WILL HELP! Thank you, Rhea said, Do you have to speak so loudly? THIS IS MY INSIDE VOICE! the warrior yelled.

Weasel cookies.

Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon.

I feel like Jack up the beanstalk, I muttered. Sam laughed under her breath. Where do you think that story comes from? It's a cultural memory--a watered-down account of what happens when humans blunder into Jotunhiem. Super. THe sword buzzed in my hand. Besides, you can't be Jack. I'm Jack. I couldn't argue with that logic.

I don't know if you've ever had a crush on somebody that bad, but Hades became obsessed. He kept sketches of Persephone in his pocket. He carved her name on his obsidian table with a knife-which took a lot of work. He dreamed about her and had imaginary conversations with her where he admitted his love and she confessed that she had always had a thing for creepy older guys who lived in caves full of dead people.

I looked more like Kurt Cobain than ever, except I doubt Cobain ever wore a shirt that read: WIGGLES ROCK & ROLL PRESCHOOL TOUR! The really disturbing thing was that they made shirts like that in my size.

Sure, Nico had mixed emotions about the camp. He'd felt rejected there, out of place, unwanted and unloved … but now that it was on the verge of destruction, he realized how much it meant to him. This was the last place Bianca and he had shared as a home – the only place they'd ever felt safe, even if only temporarily.

I mean, she looked good. Really good. I probably would've been tongue-tied if I could've said anything except reet, reet, reet.

Now, I figured that the built-up gas in most boys' locker rooms was enough to cause an explosion, so I wasn't surprised when the flaming dodgeball ignited a huge WHOOOOOOOM!

The god's expression was calm and content, as if he'd just come home from a lovely evening strolling through the Fields of Punishment, enjoying the screams of the damned.

Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon…probably the demigod Hazel admired most. He'd saved her life so many times on their quest to Alaska; but when he had needed Hazel's help in Rome, she'd failed him. She'd watched, powerless, as he and Annabeth had plunged into that pit.

That's more like it. Let's turn this tide!

Never underestimate the power of thousands of human minds all believing the same thing. They can remake reality. Sometimes for the better, sometimes not. - Apollo

Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling as I sewed together the pockets of all the boys who'd jilted me.

Team Leo!~ Leo valdez

But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn't want to be without her.

It was like looking at the ocean: some days, you could tell what mood it was in. Most days, though, it was unreadable, mysterious.