Quotes from Rick Riordan

Anytime you take aim and prepare to fire your best shot, anytime you seek to put your emotions into a song, know that I am smiling on you.

Leo," Jason said, "you're weird." "Yeah, you tell me that a lot." Leo grinned. "But if you don't remember me, that means I can reuse all my old jokes...!

Want to hit Leo?

Her secret fear? Maybe she didn't tried hard enough.

It's just Annabeth mom jeez!

I found that things weren't going well upstairs. Carter was a crumpled heap of chicken warrior on the slope of the pyramid.

Dejardins was so stunned, he momentarily forgot how to speak English. Ce n'est pas possible. On ne pourrait pas-

glancing back I got my first clear look at the monster. He was seven feet tall, easy, his arms and legs like something from the cover of Muscle Man magazine-bulging biceps and triceps and a bunch of other 'ceps, all stuffed like baseballs under vein-webbed skin. He wore no clothes except underwear-I mean, bright white fruit of the Looms.

They're like the…what is it? The League of Assassins in Arrow!

Only the fire of life can melt the chains of death.

I got ready for bed and crawled in. The covers were comfortable and warm, but the pillow was just too weird. It gave me neck cramps, so I put it on the floor and went to sleep without it. My first big mistake.

When he told it, I remembered. He handed me my past like… like a spear. But I do not know if I should take it. Is it still mine, if I do not want it?

As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe.

The dead always outnumber the living. These spirits have waited centuries, unable to express their anger. Now I have given them bodies of earth.

Fenris lunged at my face. I cleverly escaped by falling on my butt.

Look." The others seemed confused. Then the glow became brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey. A boy in the crowd gasped. "She's a communist!" A girl who'd been sitting at Cabin Four's table gave him a disgusted sneer. "No, Damien, that's my mom's symbol." Her face went slack as the truth sank in. "Uh, which means…it's her mom's symbol.

Since Thor wasn't there to creatively cuss, Sam did the honors, muttering a few comments that I doubted her grandparents would've approved of. Those are just expressions, I added hastily. In no way was my friend giving you permission to do...any of those rude and colorful things.

To Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy, I hope you're pleased with yourself

Helios thought he looked pretty hot, and he had an annoying habit of calling the sun his chick magnet.

Chiron said the word assist as if meant slap upside the head with extreme prejudice.

Nico couldn't stop the memories. They cluttered his dreams like the ghosts of Asphodel – an aimless, sorrowful mob pleading for attention. Save me, they seemed to whisper. Remember me. Help me. Comfort me.

You've got something to say to me, Seaweed Brain? You'd probably kick my butt. You know I'd kick your butt.

Jason wondered why his expression seemed farmiliar. The he realised. Nico Di Angelo had looked the same way after facing cupid. Leo was heartsick.

Could you do a glamour and turn into something smaller?" I asked it. "Preferably not a chain, since it's no longer the 1990s?" The sword didn't reply (duh), but I imagined it was humming at a more interrogative pitch, like, Such as what? "I dunno. Something pocket-size and innocuous. A pen, maybe?" The sword pulsed, almost like it was laughing. I imagined it saying, A pen sword. That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.