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Quotes About Fear

The guy had literally been through hell and back. Even when he wasn't trying, he made the toilets explode. What would Percy be like if he wanted to act scary?
~ Rick Riordan
We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again." Only then did she understand what would happen. A one-way trip. A very hard fall. "As long as we're together," she said. She heard Nico and Hazel still screaming for help. She saw sunlight far, far above- maybe the last sunlight she would ever see. Then Percy let go of his ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness.
~ Rick Riordan
Everyone hates clowns, Otis said. Even other clowns hate clowns.
~ Rick Riordan
Thank Ra!" She exclaimed. "Yeah, I'm alive." "No, I almost jumped in after you. I hate the water!
~ Rick Riordan
I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down.
~ Rick Riordan
It's natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not...
~ Rick Riordan
Percy: I thought I'd lost my mom forever, and I was stuck on a hill in a thunderstorm fighting this huge bull dude while Grover was passed out wailing. "Food!" It was terrifying, man.
~ Rick Riordan
How do you tell a dream from a nightmare? If it involves a book burning , it's probably a nightmare.
~ Rick Riordan
He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.
~ Rick Riordan
Nico knelt and picked it up. He regarded Jason, as if waiting for an attack. If the others found out- If the others found out, Jason said, you'd have that many more people to back you up, and to unleash the fury of the gods on anybody who gives you trouble.
~ Rick Riordan
Maybe that's why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn't so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his head. Wow...when he started having thoughts like that, he knew he'd been spending too much time with Annabeth.
~ Rick Riordan
Monsters,' her dad said, a tear tracing his cheek. 'I live in a world of monsters.
~ Rick Riordan
Annabeth recognized something else in her face, too - in the hard set of her mouth and the deliberate way she raised her chin like she was ready to accept any challenge. Reyna was forcing a look of courage, while holding back a mixture of hopefulness and worry and fear that she couldn't show in public. Annabeth knew that expression. She saw it every time she looked in a mirror.
~ Rick Riordan
Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough. The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse.
~ Rick Riordan
Had I ever been so terrified? Perhaps when Typhon raged across the earth, scattering the gods before him. Perhaps when Gaea unleashed her giants to tear down Olympus. Or perhaps when I accidentally saw Ares naked in the gymnasium. That had been enough to turn my hair white for a century.
~ Rick Riordan
When he pulled away, he smiled kindly at me. I felt so good, I'll admit I teared up a little. I guess until that moment I hadn't allowed myself to realize just how terrified I had been the last few days. Dad- Shhh, he said. No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. Not even Hercules-
~ Rick Riordan
Ever since my famous battle with Python, I've had a phobia of scaly reptilian creatures. (Especially if you include my stepmother, Hera. BOOM!)
~ Rick Riordan
Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music.
~ Rick Riordan
Dark seams radiated outwards like a shotgun blast of ink, as if Nico's body were trying to expel all the shadows he'd travelled through. Yesterday had been worse: an entire meadow withering, skeletons rising from the earth. Reyna wasn't anxious for that to happen again.
~ Rick Riordan
Leo felt trapped. He'd once been stuck in a cave on top of Pikes Peak, surrounded by a pack of werewolves. Another time he'd been stuck in an abandoned factory with a family of evil Cyclopes. But this—standing in an open clearing with a dozen pretty girls—was much worse.
~ Rick Riordan
The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction! -Bacchus
~ Rick Riordan
It wasn't Leo's finest moment. Panic seized him, and he took off. His only comfort was that his friends did, too – and they weren't the cowardly type.
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Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty. -Percy
~ Rick Riordan
Even when she looked scared, she had a lot of guts.
~ Rick Riordan