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Quotes About Mystery

I don't recommend shadow travel if you're scared of: a) The dark b) Cold shivers up your spine c) Strange noises d) Going so fast you feel like your face is peeling off In other words, I thought it was awesome.
~ Rick Riordan
Not knowing is half the fun, Aphrodite said, Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you? Oh, you kids! It's so cute I'm going to cry!
~ Rick Riordan
Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.
~ Rick Riordan
The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.
~ Rick Riordan
Far, far below, red liquid bubbled. Blood? Lava? Evil ketchup? None of the posibilities were good.
~ Rick Riordan
Red cattle, Annabeth said. The cattle of the sun. What? I [Percy] asked. They're sacred to Apollo. Holy cows?
~ Rick Riordan
The eidolons started pounding on the door. 'Who is it?' Leo called. 'Valdez!' 'Valdez who?
~ Rick Riordan
Hold up, Leo said. You guys lost a dragon? A Real full size dragon?
~ Rick Riordan
But who are you? Percy— I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. Gotta go! What kind of name is Percy Gotta-go?
~ Rick Riordan
Hearthstone Passes Out Even More than Jason Grace (Though I Have No Idea Who That Is)
~ Rick Riordan
But how did you know where we were? Annabeth asked. Advanced planning, my dear. I figured you would wash up near Miami if you made it out of the Sea of Monsters alive. Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.
~ Rick Riordan
You can tell the future?' 'More like the future mugs me from time to time.' Rachel said 'I speak prophecies. The oracle spirit kind of hijacks me once in a while, and speaks important stuff that doesn't make any sense to anybody. But yeah, the prophecies tell the future.
~ Rick Riordan
People usually asked her if she had a belly button. Of course she had a belly button. She couldn't explain how. She didn't really want to know.
~ Rick Riordan
It's first owner...well, things didn't turn out too well for her. Her name was Helena.' Piper let that sink in. Wait, you mean the Helena? Helena of Troy?' Annabeth nodded. And it's just sitting in your toolshed?
~ Rick Riordan
She led the way. Eyeless sockets of the dead seemed to stare at them as they passed. These are cool, Dan decided. Maybe I could- No, Dan, Amy said. You can't collect human bones. Awww.
~ Rick Riordan
Dreams and death were old friends of his. He knew how to navigate their dark borderland.
~ Rick Riordan
Carter, not to be unkind, I said, but the last few months you've been seeing messages about Zia everywhere . Two weeks ago, you thought she was sending you a distress call in your mashed potatoes. It was a Z! Carved right in the potatoes!
~ Rick Riordan
Ut cum spiritu postrema sacramentum dejuremus, he chanted. Et hostes ornamenta addent ad ianuam necem. You just...finished the prophesy,Rachael stammered. -An oath to keep with a final breath/And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death. How did you- I know those lines. Jason winced and put his hands to his temples. I don't know how, but I KNOW that prophecy. In Latin, no less, Drew called out. Handsome AND smart.
~ Rick Riordan
This belonged to my sister-in-law, Prometheus explained. Pandora. A lump formed in my throat. As in Pandora's box? Prometheus shook his head. I don't know how this box business got started. It was never a box. It was a pithos , a storage jar. I suppose Pandora's pithos doesn't have the same ring to it.
~ Rick Riordan
Hazel frowned. Why that one? You don't see the ghost? Frank asked. Ghost? Nico asked. Okay... if Frank was seeing a ghost that the Underworld kids couldn't see, something was definitely wrong.
~ Rick Riordan
Percy, my mom said. I give you my blessing. Be safe brother! Tyson pleaded. Enchiladas! Grover said. I wasn't sure where that came from, but it didn't seem to help much.
~ Rick Riordan
Frank tugged again with no luck. Even Hazel was trying not to laugh. Frank grimaced with concentration. Suddenly, he disappeared. On the deck where he'd been standing, a green iguana crouched next to an empty set of Chinese handcuffs. "Well done, Frank Zhang," Leo said dryly, doing his impression of Chiron the centaur. "That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.
~ Rick Riordan
Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris. Yeah, here's a rare grocery list, Dan muttered. Wow.
~ Rick Riordan
I started to walk away, but she [Clarisse] called out, Percy? Yeah? When you, uh, had that vision about your friends... You were one of them, I promised, Just don't tell anybody, okay? Or I'de have to kill you. A faint smile flickered across her face See you later. See you
~ Rick Riordan