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Quotes About Adventure

You are a half-blood, Zoe Nightshade said. Her accent was hard to place. It sounded old-fashioned, like she was reading from a really old book. One of thy parents was mortal. The other was an Olympian. An Olympian athlete? No, Zoe said. One of the gods. Cool! said Nico.
~ Rick Riordan
After all the dangerous adventures I'd had, I couldn't die like this. Sadie would be devastated. Then, once she got over her grief, she'd track down my soul in the Egyptian afterlife and tease me mercilessly for how stupid I'd been.
~ Rick Riordan
Let the world honor you, my Huntress. Live forever in the stars.
~ Rick Riordan
Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm. "Hang on. What about traps?" He frowned. "Traps?" "Didn't Egyptian tombs have traps?" "Well…sometimes. But this isn't a tomb. Besides, more often they had curses, like the burning curse, the donkey curse—" "Oh, lovely. That sounds so much better.
~ Rick Riordan
Look, I never wanted to be a half-blood. most of the time it gets you killed in nasty, dangerous ways.
~ Rick Riordan
On it!" Hazel said. "Go, Frank!" Dragon Frank veered to the left with Annabeth in one claw yelling, "Let's get 'em!" and Percy in the other claw screaming, "I hate flying!
~ Rick Riordan
I guess we're even,Sadie.First,Walt and I rushed off to save you in London.Then,you and Walt rushed off to save me.The only one who got shafted on both deals was Walt.Poor guy gets hauled all over the world pulling us out of trouble
~ Rick Riordan
Now...well, after what happened in Tartarus, it seemed like Percy had graduated to a totally different level of butt-kickery.
~ Rick Riordan
But yes. Come, faulty dragon people. Follow us.
~ Rick Riordan
Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. "Leave it to us, Uncle. I've got a plan." "That," I said, "sounds like very bad news.
~ Rick Riordan
And the seventh hero…Leo Valdez?" Nico raised his eyebrows. "You remember his name?" "Of course! He invented the Valdezinator. Oh, what a musical instrument! I barely had time to master its major scales before Zeus zapped me at the Parthenon. If anyone could help me, it would be Leo Valdez.
~ Rick Riordan
Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough. The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse.
~ Rick Riordan
Sure, they only had ten days to stop the giants from waking Gaia. Sure, he could die before dinnertime. But he loved being told that something was impossible. It was like someone handing him a lemon meringue pie and telling him not to throw it. He just couldn't resist the challenge.
~ Rick Riordan
What the creeping crud is that? [Percy] demanded. You're inside a giant glowing chicken-man! Hawk! I yelled. I decided that if I survived this day I would have to make sure this guy never met Sadie. They'd probably take turns insulting me for the rest of eternity.
~ Rick Riordan
I TOLD MY NEW FRIENDS I was allergic to dismemberment. They just laughed and herded me toward the combat arena. This is why I don't like making new friends.
~ Rick Riordan
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.
~ Rick Riordan
I turned to Thalia. 'I'll hold the flower while you beat up the thief?' She sighed. 'Fine. Let's go catch this jerk.
~ Rick Riordan
June smiled. So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?
~ Rick Riordan
You hit the Lord of The Titans with a blue plastic hairbrush.
~ Rick Riordan
He's nuts Bianca said We need to jump off this cliff i said Oh nice idea!! Your nuts too
~ Rick Riordan
This is where he struck the earth, Annabeth said, where he made a saltwater spring appear when he had the contest with my mom to sponsor Athens. So this is where the rivalry started, Percy said. Yeah Percy pulled Annabeth close and kissed her. The rivalry ends here, Percy said. I love you Wise Girl.
~ Rick Riordan
The horse seemed to bend time and space as he ran, blurring the landscape and making Frank feel like he'd just drunk a gallon of whole milk without his lactose-intolerance medicine: Seven hundred and fifty miles per hour. Eight hundred. Eight hundred and three. Fast. very Fast.
~ Rick Riordan
We'd just released a zebra in Las Vegas.
~ Rick Riordan
Piper McLean, [Annabeth] grumbled, that was without a doubt the dumbest risk I've ever seen anyone take, and I date a dumb risk-taker.
~ Rick Riordan