Rick Riordan Quotes

I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta.Leo snorted. What's a wine god doing in Kansas? Gods are weird.

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Aretmis gripped her bow. “Let us pray I am wrong.”Can goddesses pray?

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Apollo?” I guessed…He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.”A god named Fred?

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I see murky visions of other gods and rival magic.That REALLY didn't sound good.What do you mean? I asked. what OTHER GODS?I don't know, Sadie. But Egypt has always faced challenges from outside –– magicians from elsewhere, even gods from elsewhere. Just be vigilant.~Ruby & Sadie Kane about...? Possibly Greeks?

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But too much love is poison, especially when that love is not returned

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I don’t belong here,” I said. “I don’t even believe in gods.”“Yeah,” he said. “That’s how we all started. Once you start believing in them? It doesn’t get any easier.

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Nico di Angelo came into Olympus to a hero's welcome, his father right behind him, despite the fact that Hades was only supposed to visit Olympus in winter solstice. The God of the dead looked stunned when his relatives clapped him on the back. I doubt he'd ever got such an enthusiastic welcome before.

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I'd had years of practise looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn't know. It's a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don't see the need. It's easier just to have folks explain stuff.

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The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction!-Bacchus

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Percy glanced over. He saw the fallen giant and seemed to understand what was happening. He yelled something that was lost in the wind, probably: Go!Then he slammed Riptide into the ice at his feet. The entire glacier shuddered. Ghosts fell to their knees. Behind Percy, a wave surged up from the bay-a wall of gray water even taller than the glacier. Water shot from the chasms and crevices in the ice. As the wave hit, the back half of the camp crumbled. The entire edge of the glacier peeled away, cascading into the void-carrying buildings, ghosts, and Percy Jackson over the edge.

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Um ,sorry. I cant read the last line.Fish. Have you stolen any fish from the holy lakes?I lived in Kansas..So ..no

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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.

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A father should do more - a father should give more to his children than he takes.

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Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth.

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A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.

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The dead praetor raised his sword. ''Our desires reveal us. They show us for who we really are. Someone has come come for you, Jason Grace.

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Then the glow grew brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey.A boy in the crowd gasped. She's a communist!

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THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD!!!!

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We could use some good luck. That doesn’t mean we’ll get it.

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It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.

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Think about Isis,” Jaz repeated. “And Sadie…thereis a purpose. You taught us that. We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about. That's why its name, its ren, has endured for millennia. Don't despair. Otherwise Chaos wins.

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Bellona has answered my prayer. She doesn't fight my battles for me. She doesn't guarantee me easy victory. She grants me opportunities to prove myself. She gives me strong enemies and potential allies.

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Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty.

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Kids are baby goats. They're cute and they have redeeming social value. You are definitely not kids.

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The sea does not like to be restrained.

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A faint smile played on his lips. Obedience does not come naturally to you, does itNo...sirI must take some blame for that, I suppose. The sea does not like to be restrained.

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Khione’s eyes flared pure white. For once, she seemed at a loss for words. She stormed back up the stairs—literally. Halfway up, she turned into a blizzard and disappeared.

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And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

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I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.

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Aphrodite: Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.Percy: But... I don't know where it's going. My heart, I mean.

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Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up!

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Those movies... ridiculously inaccurate. The real gods of Asgard — Thor, Loki, Odin, and the rest — are much more powerful, much more terrifying than anything Hollywood could concoct.

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Excercise is nothing more than a depressing reminder that one is not a god.

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I sort of fell.Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet?

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My two greatest loves were, of course, Daphne and Hyacinthus, but when you're a god as popular as

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But like I told you guys years ago: this demigod gig is dangerous. Don't say I didn't warn you.

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Some legends say that Hera's breast milk sprayed across the sky and created the Milky Way. I don't know. That seems like a whole lot of solar systems from just one squirt

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Behold, my children! she said. The instrument of my revenge. I will call it a scythe!The Titans muttered among themselves: What is that for? Why is it curved? How do you spell scythe?

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Helios thought he looked pretty hot, and he had an annoying habit of calling the sun his chick magnet.

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Looking is the nature of wisdom.

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