Rick Riordan Quotes

“Yikes! I thought. Yikes, yikes, yikes! I am eloquent in times of danger.”
― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

“Faith that you will find a way to make wine out
of your sour grapes.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tower of Nero

“Jack was pleased to help. “Combat time? Cool!” He floated in a circle around me. “Who are we fighting?”
“Sam,” I said.
Jack froze. “But I like Sam.”
“We’re just practicing,” I said. “Try to kill her without really killing her.”
“Oh, phew! Okay. I can do that.”
― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

“Alex allowed herself the space of three heartbeats to grieve. I could count them, because that gross muscle between Pottery Barn’s hands was still beating.”
― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

“Eldhusfifls!” Halfborn roared.
(That was another of his favorite insults. As he explained it, an eldhusfifl was a fool who sat by the communal fire all day, so basically, a village idiot. Plus, it just sounded insulting: el-doos-feef-full.)”
― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

“Sam chuckled. “She probably won’t be too mad. Go. Get it over with.”
Easy for Sam to say. She knew exactly where she stood in her relationship with Amir. She was happily engaged and never had to worry about secret kisses under blankets because she was a good Muslim girl and would never do such a thing. I, alas, was not a good Muslim girl.”
― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

“I hated visiting Hephaestus’s office. His desk toys were so mesmerizing I found myself staring at them for hours, sometimes decades. I missed the entire 1480s that way”
― Rick Riordan, The Tyrant's Tomb

“It's not how long you live that matters. It's what you live for." -Josephine to Apollo (Trials of Apollo: Book 2 The Dark Prophecy)”
― Rick Riordan

“Okay, okay!" I said. I put away the sword and started speaking as calmly as I could so the hippocampi and the cow serpent would stop panicking. I didn't know if it was possible to get stampeded underwater, but I didn't really want to find out. "It's cool. No sword. See? No sword. Calm thoughts. Sea grass. Mama cows. Vegetarianism.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and The Olympians - The Lightning Thief

“Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. “Wow," Thalia muttered. “Ever had a flying burrito hit you?" Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. “In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. “God alert!" Blackjack yelled.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

“Sometimes, you have to flaunt the weird, my friend.

-Alex Fierro”
― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

“Jack followed me around the deck, alternating between Abba hits (Vikings are huge Abba fans) and telling me stories about the old days when he and Frey would roam the Nine Worlds, spreading sunshine and happiness and occasionally killing people.”
― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

“Sam and I couldn’t have done it,” I admitted. “You’re the doer, just like
Frigg said.”
Jack floated over, his blade shuddering and warbling like a hand saw. “Frigg? Oh, man, I don’t like Frigg. She’s too quiet. Too devious. Too—”
“She’s my ma,” Mallory grumbled.
“Oh, that Frigg!” Jack said. “Yeah, she’s great.”
“I hate her,” Mallory said.
“Gods, me too!” Jack commiserated.”
― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

“We've all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I'm tragically fun and good-looking.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“He’d perfected his wolf stare over the last few months–a look that said: However bad you think you are, I’m worse. After strangling sea monsters and running over gorgons in a police car, Percy wasn’t scared of gangs. Pretty much nothing in the mortal world scared him anymore.”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

“Sometimes, you have to flaunt the weird, my friend.”
― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

“Loki, who put the con in conniving.”
― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

“Besides, killing a ring dragon is a very personal thing. You would have to wield me yourself. An act like that affects your wyrd.”
I frowned. “You mean it affects you weirdly?”
“No. Your wyrd.”
“You’re weird,” I muttered.
“He means fate,” Blitzen put in, signing as he spoke for Hearth’s benefit.”
― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

“Welp,” I said, which was usually how I started conversations about ways to save our butts from certain destruction. “Any ideas?”
― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

“War is a duty,' Mars continued. 'The only real choice is whether you accept it, and what you fight for.”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

“You’re the god of fishing,” Blitzen said.
Njord frowned. “Other things as well, Mr. Dwarf.”
“Please, call me Blitz,” said Blitz. “Mr. Dwarf was my father.”
― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

“The Dark Prophecy
The words that memory wrought are set to fire,
Ere new moon rises o'er the Devils Mount.
The changeling lord shall face a dire,
Till bodies fill the Tiber beyond count.

Yet southward the sun now trace its course,
Through mazes dark to lands of scorching death
To find the master of the swift white horse
And wrest from him the crossword speaker's breath.

To westward palace must the Lester go;
Demeter's daughter finds her ancient roots.
The cloven guide alone the way does know,
To walk the path in thine own enemy's boots.

We three are known and Tiber reached alive,
'Tis only then Apollo starts to jive.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle / The Dark Prophecy

“So we blunder around together," he said, " and let trouble find us. It's always worked before”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“This was how it ended, I thought bitterly. Not fighting threats from the outside, but fighting against the ugliest side of our own history.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb

“Beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit. To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself - avoid trying to be something you're not.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

“But didn’t dwarves kill Kvasir? How did giants get the mead?”
T.J. shrugged. “All the old stories are basically about one group murdering another group to steal their stuff. That’s probably how.”
This made me proud to be a Viking.”
― Rick Riordan

“Can't fight in person?
We can videoconference
I'll kill you online”
― Rick Riordan, The Tower of Nero

“You broke my dining table!”
― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

“Long story short: Alderman took the cursed ring. He put it on and turned even crazier and eviler, which I hadn’t thought possible.
Personally, I liked my cursed rings to at least do something cool, like turn you invisible and let you see the Eye of Sauron. Andvari’s ring had no upside. It brought out the worst in you—greed, hate, jealousy. According to Hearth, it would eventually change you into a bona fide monster so your outside could be as repulsive as your inside.”
― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

“Yes. I'm ready to die.”
― J.C. Cervantes, The Fire Keeper