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Quotes About Danger

Can't you go faster?" Ashley pleaded. "Any faster, and we'll be the ones needing a rescue.
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
Far below her, frantic waves crashed again and again, impaling themselves on razor-sharp rocks, gnashing and gnawing the sheer walls of the cliffs until they bled black foam.
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
Teacher's pet Teacher's pet.. Your feeling so perplexed... Your friend has gone into pieces and you'll be next...
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
The real world is where the monsters are.
~ Rick Riordan
It's him, I said. Typhon. I was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like 'No, that's our huge friend Leroy! He's going to help us!
~ Rick Riordan
Something was wrong with Luke, Annabeth muttered, poking at the fire with her knife. Did you notice the way he was acting? He looked pretty pleased to me, I said. Like he'd spent a nice day torturing heroes. That's not true! There was something wrong with him. He looked...nervous. He told his monsters to spare me. He wanted to tell me something. Probably, 'Hi, Annabeth! Sit here with me and watch while I tear your friends apart. It'll be fun!
~ Rick Riordan
Well . . . sure good to be together again. Arguing. Almost dying. Abject terror. Oh, look. It's our floor.
~ Rick Riordan
Yeah, well," Nico said, "not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.
~ Rick Riordan
Well, I said. If you need me, I'll be outside, playing with sharp objects.
~ Rick Riordan
Daddy will explain. Come, he is blowing up monsters.
~ Rick Riordan
Mr. D, wearing his leopard-skin jogging suit and rummaging through the refrigerator. He looked up lazily. Do you mind? Where's Chiron! I shouted. How rude. Mr. D took a swig from a jug of grape juice. Is that how you say hello? Hello, I amended. We're about to die! Where's Chiron?
~ Rick Riordan
Far, far below, red liquid bubbled. Blood? Lava? Evil ketchup? None of the posibilities were good.
~ Rick Riordan
Down in the water, Octavian yelled, "Get me out of here! I'll kill you!" "Tempting," Percy called down.
~ Rick Riordan
Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?' 'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.' 'But it's a dragon!
~ Rick Riordan
Wha-what? Her eyes fluttered open. Nothing, I shouted. We're being followed by a slaying machine. Go back to sleep.
~ Rick Riordan
Love was the most savage monster of all.
~ Rick Riordan
Hazel!" he yelled. "That box! Open it!" She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te label read WARNING. DO NOT OPEN. "Open it!" Leo yelled again.
~ Rick Riordan
OPEN WITH CARE. TRIPPLE G RANCH IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR PROPERTY DAMAGE, MAIMING, OR EXCRUCIATINGLY PAINFUL DEATHS.
~ Rick Riordan
We'd spent maybe ten minutes together, during which time I'd accidentally swung a sword at her, she'd saved my life, and I'd run away chased by a band of supernatural killing machines. You know, your typical chance meeting.
~ Rick Riordan
Beckendorf walked up with his helmet under his arm. 'She likes you, man.' 'Sure,' I muttered. 'She likes me for target practice.' 'Nah, they always do that. A girl starts trying to kill you, you know she's into you. 'Makes a lot of sense.
~ Rick Riordan
There's another problem, Percy said. I'm not good with air travel. It's dangerous for a son of Neptune. You'll have to risk it...and so will I, Frank said. By the way, we're related. Percy almost stumbled off the roof. What?
~ Rick Riordan
Reyna marvelled at how peaceful he looked. The worry lines vanished. His face became strangely angelic…like his surname, di Angelo. She could almost believe he was a regular fourteen-year-old boy, not a son of Hades who had been pulled out of time from the 1940s and forced to endure more tragedy and danger than most demigods would in a lifetime.
~ Rick Riordan
So . . . what is this fire river called?" "The Phlegethon," [Annabeth] said. "You should concentrate on going down." "The Phlegethon ?" [Percy] shinnied along the ledge. They'd made it roughly a third of the way down the cliff—still high enough up to die if they fell. "Sounds like a marathon for hawking spitballs." "Please don't make me laugh," she said. "Just trying to keep things light.
~ Rick Riordan
Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. "A trap?" "Probably," Frank said. "She's not mortal," Hedge said, sniffing the air. "Probably some kind of goat-eating, demigod-destroying fiend from Tartarus." "No doubt," Percy agreed. "Awesome." Hedge grinned. "Let's go.
~ Rick Riordan