Top 40 James Riley Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Embrace the impossible! Find the magic within! BE MORE FICTIONAL.”

— James Riley

2. “We read about you to be with you, to walk in someone else’s shoes, to experience another life. Some of those lives are hard, and others are easy, but we’re with you every step of the way. We read about people in impossible situations because we’re dealing with horrible things ourselves, in our lives. And you going through your story helps us with ours, no matter how yours ends.”

— James Riley

3. “Why imagine a world in your head when you could just go visit another one in a book?”

— James Riley

4. “He realized that it wouldn’t be much longer before the trees picked themselves up and migrated to the warmer south, leaving their dead, leafless brothers behind.”

— James Riley

5. “If a boy with a lightning scar on his forehead happened to be sitting next to you and you’d never heard of Harry Potter, why would you even notice?”

— James Riley

6. “These are challenges,” Jack told her. “That’s it. We are going to win. You know why? Because it doesn’t matter if you’re in a fairy tale or here in real life, doing the right thing still counts for something. We’re going to win because we’re good, decent people trying to accomplish something noble.”

— James Riley

7. “Once upon a time, Jack wouldn’t have been caught dead in a princess rescue.”

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8. “And then everything exploded into fire and chaos and awesome.”

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9. “He frantically tried to bite his lips closed to keep from saying anything else, but his lips just pushed out into a fish-face expression to escape his teeth. Ugh, those clever lips of his!”

— James Riley

10. “See, I like to think the point of life is to be happy,” Jack said with a shrug. “Also maybe not almost dying every two minutes. But I can see how we’ll have to agree to disagree here.”

— James Riley

11. “You’re right, Phillip!” May said, slamming a hand down on the railing. “Let’s go jump in the ocean and try not to drown, just to annoy my grandmother!”

— James Riley

12. “I like that color you turn. It makes you look like a tomato. A very dignified tomato. A tomato above all other tomatoes, one that rules his garden with a squishy iron fist.”

— James Riley

13. “Kiel pulled his arm out of Owen’s grasp and stepped forward. “Where is she?” he shouted, angrier than Owen had ever seen him.”

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14. “One for all and whatever else.”

— James Riley

15. “Thousand years, billion dollars,” May said to the monkey. “You. PAY.”

— James Riley

16. “I was actually thinking about writing, maybe,” Owen said. “About Charm?” Kiel asked, raising an eyebrow. “No?” Owen said, probably a bit too fast too be believable. “I have some other ideas.”

— James Riley

17. “He grinned. “Like when you’re right in the middle of the worst adventure imaginable, but for a minute, it’s just about sitting on a boat in the middle of the ocean with your friends, with no one trying to kill you in any kind of horrifying way. You have to appreciate these moments when they happen, ’cause obviously we don’t get many of them.”

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18. “Owen is Owen. No one gets to tell him how to live his life. Not you, not me, and not some author nobody. Owen gets to choose how his life story goes, and no one, let alone his idiot fictional self, gets to take that away from him.”

— James Riley

19. “I don’t care about that. You’re trying to steal my life!”

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20. “The others just stopped and stared at him. “Correct me if I be wrong, little man,” Bluebeard said, “but ye do be wishin’ to live, aye? And ye do know that the Fish King will gut ye like a trout if he gets ahold a’ye?” “Basically Bluebeard’s calling you stupid,” May translated helpfully.”

— James Riley

21. “The world must never find out my secret identity,” Doc Twilight said as he pulled off his mask. “For what would they think if they knew that Christian Sanderson, astronomer of Jupiter City, was actually Doc Twilight?”

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22. “Fakin’? No,” the captain said, giving her a careful stare. “But don’t be misunderestimatin’ Captain Bluebeard anytime soon, lassie. I don’t be who ye think I be!” “You be someone without a good grasp on yer grammar, is who I think ye be,” May pointed out.”

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23. “You are awake,” Phillip said from his side. “I feared you were permanently injured.” “The day’s still young,” Jack told him, his head.”

— James Riley

24. “When the birds had all flown, the monkey landed on May’s pillow and smacked it, letting her know it was time to get up. Or more likely that he was hungry. Or wanted to annoy her. There were plenty of options. May.”

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25. “Kiel just winked.”

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26. “He was finally able to out-vague the Charmed One!”

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27. “Each and every book in the library had a ball of light directly in front of it. Every single book.”

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28. “Be more fictional.”

— James Riley

29. “Was the book haunted? Was the entire library haunted? Was it okay to find that awesome even while being scared?”

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30. “There in the car was a bright-orange blob, vaguely human-shaped, but evil for sure.”

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31. “Obviously, Harry Potter would be near the top of the list. Not even to Hogwarts, just to Ollivanders for a wand.”

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32. “Charm shot the banana over and over, screaming profanities as she did.”

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33. “Somehow, miraculously, Owen made it a good thirty seconds before tripping and landing on his face.”

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34. “Magic raced into her mouth and down her throat, infecting her lungs, which immediately froze up. She gasped, making a rasping noise in her throat.”

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35. “You were half a second away from saying we’re the villains in our story!” May.”

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36. “Bigger than saving Dumbledore, since Dumbledore came back anyway as a ghost or whatever.”

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37. “As Jack slid down the wall to the floor a little laugh escaped the wolf’s lips. “One more thing,” he growled. “I hardly care what you do, but try not to wake me with your courting rituals again.” Jack’s face turned bright red as he slipped and fell the rest of the way to the floor.”

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38. “Owen quickly jumped out of the way and fled, though he almost thought he might possibly have caught what looked like the hint of a smile on her face.”

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39. “As usual, it was a mess, like a hurricane had plowed into a nuclear bomb right around the Rick Riordan books.”

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40. “I suggest we hang this kid outside his window by his ankles until he talks. If that’s uncomfortable for you, I’m happy to do it.”

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41. “WHOA. So not only do I have some guy’s eyeball on my back, but it also has the essence of a dead guy in it? Do you understand why I’m having some issues with this? Also, how big was this guy that this thing could be part of his eye?!”

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42. “Moira, who looked longingly at the police car they left behind. “I’ll come back for you, my love!” she said. “Don’t forget me, or our all-too-short time together. You’ll always be in my heart!”

— James Riley

43. “It takes a bit of getting used to,” Doc Twilight finished, grinning from ear to ear. “I think I might be in love.”

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44. “Not watching where he was going, he immediately tripped, faceplanting right at the top of the stairs.”

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45. “I’m afraid that’s all the time I have,” Colonel Charles said. “I’ll update with further information as the situation warrants.” He walked off to more reporters shouting out questions, and Fort muted the television again, not sure why he’d even bothered. Six months later, and they still wouldn’t say who’d done it, or why. Not to mention that all anyone could think about was if and when another attack was coming.”

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46. “A fictional cat now lived in his house. That went well with his robotic heart.”

— James Riley