Rick Riordan Quotes

Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn't help thinking there was nothing hotter than a girl who didn't mind getting her hands dirty. But of course, that was just a general comment. Didn't apply to Calypso. Obviously.

She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.

You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.

It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up.

She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish.

My name is Percy Jackson.
I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.
Am I a troubled kid?
Yeah. You could say that.

She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts.

I said hello to the poodle.

I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.

I couldn't believe I'd come this far, lost Tyson, suffered through so much, only to fail - stopped by a big stupid monster in a baby-blue tuxedo kilt. Nobody was going to swat down my friends like that! I mean...nobody, not Nobody. Ah, you know what I mean.

What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apologize.

Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.

Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.