Rick Riordan
153 quotes
Biography
"With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later."
"When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times."
"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."
"I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers."
"Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades."
"Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face."
"Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong."
"Love conquers all,"Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?""Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?""Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart."
"Wow,"Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot.""He's the sun god,"I said."That's not what I meant."
"How did you die?""We er....drowned in a bathtub.""All three of you?""It was a big bathtub."
"Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. "That's us,"he said. "Those five nuts right there.""Which one is me?"I asked. "The little deformed one,"Zoe suggested. "Oh, shut up."
"People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed."
"What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?""I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you.""Why?""Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?"
"I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush."
"Dreams like a podcast,Downloading truth in my ears.They tell me cool stuff.""Apollo?"I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad.He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred.""A god named Fred?"
"Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die."
"Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum."
"It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality."
"Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all."
"Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing."
"You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed."
"Um...is that thing tame?"Frank said.The horse whinnied angrily."I don't think so,"Percy guessed. "He just said, 'I will trample you to death, silly Chinese Canadian baby man'."
"Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes."
"God alert!"Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude!Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!"
"It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one."