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Quotes About Patience

The most difficult kind of strength -- restraint.
~ Rick Riordan
Hope does not leave without being given permission.
~ Rick Riordan
You will not find love where you wish or where you hope.
~ Rick Riordan
Hermes gazed up at the stars. My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet- You invented the Internet? It was my idea , Martha said. Rats are delicious , George said. It was my idea! Hermes said. I mean the Internet, not the rats.
~ Rick Riordan
Percy muttered. 'I want to drown her.' 'Be patient, water boy.' 'Don't call me water boy.
~ Rick Riordan
Um, uh, gah.
~ Rick Riordan
Calm down, Horus said. Don't tell me to calm down! Bast frowned. I didn't. Talking to him! I pointed at my forehead.
~ Rick Riordan
Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them.
~ Rick Riordan
Don't decide yet, Hephaestus advised. Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.
~ Rick Riordan
Twelve minutes. I can give you that.
~ Rick Riordan
Annabeth sat up and glared at her ankle. You HAD to break, she scolded it. The ankle did not reply.
~ Rick Riordan
Percy: Dad- Poseidon: Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works. Percy: I'm praying, I'm talking to you, right? Poseidon: Oh...yes. Good point.
~ Rick Riordan
My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.
~ Rick Riordan
We, the bones that are here, await yours.
~ Rick Riordan
Chocolate must be savored, not rushed.
~ Rick Riordan
Things will work out - maybe just not the way you plan
~ Rick Riordan
The smallest seedlings, Demeter often told me, grow into century oaks.
~ Rick Riordan
If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it?
~ Rick Riordan
Percy, explaining things to you is like lecturing a gerbil.
~ Rick Riordan
sorry,no thanks,if i was going to die it could wait until tomorrow morning.
~ Rick Riordan
Not all powers are spectacular. Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.
~ Rick Riordan
I raised my face to the heavens. "Please, Father, I get the point. Please, I can't do this!" Zeus did not answer. He was probably too busy recording my humiliation to share on Snapchat.
~ Rick Riordan
I hold up two fingers. 'How many fingers?' He squints. 'Twenty-five?' 'Yeah, you'll be fine.
~ Rick Riordan
Laufen? Auch kein Erfolg. Die Waldnymphen, die mich unterrichten sollten, sausten mir sofort davon. Sie meinten, ich solle mir darüber nicht den Kopf zerbrechen. Sie hätten Jahrhunderte Übung darin, vor liebeskranken Göttern wegzurennen. Aber trotzdem fand ich es ein wenig demütigend, langsamer zu sein als ein Baum.
~ Rick Riordan