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Quotes About Loyalty

Zoe ordered the Hunters to start loading. She picked up her camping pack, and Apollo said, Here, sweetheart. Let me get that. Zoe recoiled. Her eyes flashed murderously. Brother, Artemis chided. You do not help my Hunters. You do not look at, talk to, or flirt with my Hunters. And you do not call them sweetheart.
~ Rick Riordan
that's me. ancient history. [Poseidon to Paul]
~ Rick Riordan
Coach Hedge came pounding up the stairs with Hazel at his hooves. "Where are they?" he demanded. "Who do I kill?" "No killing!" Annabeth ordered. "Just defend the ship!" "But they interrupted a Chuck Norris movie!
~ Rick Riordan
Could an Olympian parent turn against his half-blood child? Would it sometimes be easier just to let them die? If there were ever any half-bloods who needed to worry about that, it was Thalia and me. I wondered if maybe I should've sent Poseidon that seashell pattern tie for Father's Day after all.
~ Rick Riordan
your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend you would sacrifice the world.
~ Rick Riordan
Nico had proven himself in other ways. He'd kept the camps' secrets for the best of reasons, because he feared a war. He had plunged into Tartarus alone, voluntarily, to find the Doors of Death. He'd been captured and imprisoned by giants. He had led the crew of the Argo II into the House of Hades…and now he had accepted yet another terrible quest: raking himself to haul the Athene Parthenos back to Camp Half-Blood.
~ Rick Riordan
We speak with one voice," Walt said. "Especially on this matter. No one hurts Sadie Kane.
~ Rick Riordan
Luke gazed at Annabeth. You knew. I almost killed you, but you knew . . . Shhh. Her voice trembled. You were a hero at the end, Luke.
~ 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
If not for the horses, Piper would've died.
~ Rick Riordan
Poseidon put his weathered hand on my shoulder. "Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names…well, it usually says more about them than it does about us. And you , Percy, are my favorite son.
~ Rick Riordan
There's no point in defending camp if you guys die. All our friends are here.
~ Rick Riordan
Now, leave. All three boys slumped forward. Percy fell face-first into his pizza. Percy! Annabeth grabbed him.
~ Rick Riordan
I'm not usually an eavesdropper,but i dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult.
~ 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
He [Nico] 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
Destroy them later? Cal offered, which was probably as close to friendly as he ever got.
~ Rick Riordan
Nothing? Favonius cried. The one you care for most... plunged into Tartarus, and you still will not allow the truth? Suddenly Jason felt like he was eavedropping. The one you care for most.
~ Rick Riordan
Annabeth, thank goodness, would be staying in New York. She'd gotten permission from her parents to attend a boarding school in the city so she could be close to Olympus and oversee the rebuilding efforts. And close to me? I asked. Well, someone's got a big sense of his own importance. But she laced her fingers through mine. I remembered what she'd told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought—just maybe—we were off to a good start.
~ Rick Riordan
Frank Zhang! I, Jason Grace, praetor of the Twelfth Legion Fulminata, give you my final order: I resign my post and give you emergency field promotion to praetor, with the full powers of that rank. Take command of this legion!
~ Rick Riordan
Bob … the Titan … he only helped us in Tartarus because you were kind to him. You told him we were worth saving. That's the only reason we're alive.' She said we so easily, as if she and Percy were interchangeable, inseparable.
~ Rick Riordan
It didn't seem to matter how much he resented Percy Jackson; Nico would do anything for him. He hated himself for that.
~ 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
Too bad Jason wasn't a metal automaton. At least then Leo would have some idea of how to help his best friend. But with humans … Leo felt helpless. They broke way too easily.
~ Rick Riordan