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Quotes About Destiny

Entertain me, heroes of Olympus. Give me a reason to do more. Bacchus to Percy and Jason
~ Rick Riordan
Perseus, you are not the hero.
~ Rick Riordan
That wasn't my future I destroyed,' she assured herself. 'I make my own future.
~ Rick Riordan
Up in my business Always burning Oracles Romans gonna hate
~ Rick Riordan
Everything happens for a reason, Sadie, even bad things.
~ Rick Riordan
Frank Zhang: lumbering klutz, child of Mars, part-time pachyderm.
~ Rick Riordan
The Sword of Summer, a weapon that wasn't designed to be a weapon, a blade that is best used by letting go of it.
~ Rick Riordan
Percy stared at his jelly donut. He had a rocky history with Nico di Angelo. The guy had once tricked him into visiting Hades's palace, and Percy had ended up in a cell. But most of the time, Nico sided with the good guys. He certainly didn't deserve slow suffocation in a bronze jar, and Percy couldn't stand seeing Hazel in pain. We'll rescue him, he promised her. We have to. The prophecy says he holds the key to endless death.
~ Rick Riordan
We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.
~ Rick Riordan
Reyna's destiny: to die defending a passive-aggressive goddess.
~ Rick Riordan
As always, the subject of Bianca lay between them like a loaded gun – deadly, easy to reach, impossible to ignore. 'I mean your other sister, Hazel … she has discovered that one of the Seven will die. She may try to prevent this. In doing so, she may lose sight of her priorities.
~ Rick Riordan
I hate the word 'demigod'. I prefer 'being born with a target on my back. - Blitzen
~ Rick Riordan
People liked to be seen, even if it's by the cold, cruel eyes of fate.
~ Rick Riordan
I have brought you a hero's fate, and a hero's fate is never happy. It is never anything but tragic.
~ Rick Riordan
You are the ghost king, a voice said. I am, Nico thought. This is where you belong. But then Nico raised his head. Looked at the other two passengers. Will, whose face was strained as he reached down with a shaking hand to grab at him. Nico took it, gripped his boyfriend's hand tight, and thought, No. This is where I belong.
~ Rick Riordan
Things can turn out differently Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.
~ Rick Riordan
Cupid, Jason called, where are you? 'Where you least expect me,' Cupid answered. 'As love always is.
~ Rick Riordan
Don't go jumping off any rooftops. Don't run into the highway or set yourself on fire. It doesn't work that way. You won't end up where I ended up.
~ Rick Riordan
I'm coming back for you, Calypso," he said to the night wind. "I swear it on the River Styx.
~ Rick Riordan
The thing about fate, Magnus: even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the details. That's how we rebel against destiny, how we make our own mark.
~ Rick Riordan
We einherjar know we are destined to die. The world will end. The big picture cannot be changed. But in the meantime, as Loki once said, we can choose to alter the details. That's how we take control of our destiny. Sometimes even Loki can be right.
~ Rick Riordan
How about this?" I drew the Arrow of Dodona from my quiver. "We'll ask my prophetic friend. Surely it has a better idea—perhaps access to last-minute hotel deals!" I lifted the projectile in my trembling fingers. "O great Arrow of Dodona—" "Is he talking to that arrow?" Lu asked Meg. "He talks to inanimate objects," Meg told her. "Humor him.
~ Rick Riordan
How could music cause so many lives to veer off course?
~ Rick Riordan
Seven half-bloods shall answer the call, To storm or fire the world must fall. An oath to keep with a final breath, And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death.
~ Rick Riordan