Top 500 Rick Riordan Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you’re my best friend and I don’t want you to die!”

— Rick Riordan

102. “I prefer to be the noisiest thing in my environment thank you very much.”

— Rick Riordan

103. “Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness.”

— Rick Riordan

104. “Knowledge of any value can’t be given. It must be sought and earned.”

— Rick Riordan

105. “Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that makes the reader wonder what he or she would do in the protagonist’s place.”

— Rick Riordan

106. “I pulled out Riptide.”

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107. “Nico started to crawl away, groaning. Percy wanted him to move faster and groan less. He considered throwing his wonder bread at him.”

— Rick Riordan

108. “You drool when you sleep.”

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109. “Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that’s not important.? It was probably important to her.”

— Rick Riordan

110. “We’d spent maybe ten minutes together, during which time I’d accidentally swung a sword at her, she’d saved my life, and I’d run away chased by a band of supernatural killing machines. You know, your typical chance meeting.”

— Rick Riordan

111. “Jason’s fingers itched to draw his sword. He’d met plenty of scary demigods, but he was starting to realize that Nico di Angelo – as pale and gaunt as he looked – might be more than he could handle.”

— Rick Riordan

112. “I love Norse mythology – Thor and Odin and Loki – amazing characters.”

— Rick Riordan

113. “I am Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades. I control the shadows. They do not control me.”

— Rick Riordan

114. “He had a crush on a blueberry bush once.”

— Rick Riordan

115. “I try not to think,” Leo admitted. “It interferes with being nuts.”

— Rick Riordan

116. “That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.”

— Rick Riordan

117. “Only the fire of life can melt the chains of death.”

— Rick Riordan

118. “Whats up, Seaweed Brain?”

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119. “Good Morning! You’re Going to Die.”

— Rick Riordan

120. “I’m a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.”

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121. “Love is powerful. It can bring the gods to their knees.”

— Rick Riordan

122. “Eat bitter, taste sweet.”

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123. “Wisdom’s daughter walks alone, The mark of Athena burns through Rome.”

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124. “I’m not choosing one of your paths, I’m making one of my own.”

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125. “All da ladies love Leo!!”

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126. “All we can do, child, is follow our destiny.”

— Rick Riordan

127. “My dear, I’m a cat. Everything I see is mine.”

— Rick Riordan

128. “Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history.”

— Rick Riordan

129. “The images from the book you make in your head are always going to be the best images.”

— Rick Riordan

130. “Zeus looked like a really buff, really angry hippie.”

— Rick Riordan

131. “The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car.”

— Rick Riordan

132. “Felix believed that the answer to every problem involved penguins; but it wasn’t fair to birds, and I was getting tired of teleporting them back home. Somewhere in Antarctica, a whole flock of Magellanic penguins were undergoing psychotherapy.”

— Rick Riordan

133. “Tyson thought Annabeth was just about the coolest thing since peanut butter, and he SERIOUSLY loved peanut butter.”

— Rick Riordan

134. “I didn’t understand how. But the toilets had responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing...”

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135. “It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.”

— Rick Riordan

136. “Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.”

— Rick Riordan

137. “It isn’t easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed. -Hephaestus.”

— Rick Riordan

138. “But too much love is poison, especially when that love is not returned.”

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139. “Deadlines just aren’t real to me until I’m staring one in the face.”

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140. “Just because you don’t see me doesn’t mean I wasn’t there.”

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141. “Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine.”

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142. “Most problems look worse than they are. nothing is unfixable.”

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143. “Like your zodiac sign?” Percy asked. “I’m a Leo.” “No, stupid,” Leo said. “I’m a Leo. You’re a Percy.”

— Rick Riordan

144. “Sometimes, it takes us a while to appreciate something new, something that might change us for the better.”

— Rick Riordan

145. “Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.”

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146. “Yeah, well. I don’t try to be awesome. It just comes natural.”

— Rick Riordan

147. “Writing is like a sport – you only get better if you practice.”

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148. “I need to use the Dam Bathroom, I need to use the Dam Snack bar, I want a Dam Tee-Shirt.”

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149. “You’re a strange person.” “I prefer the term fabulously weird.”

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150. “Grover and Nico came back from their walk, and Grover helped me fix up my wounded arm. “It’s green!” Nico said with delight.”

— Rick Riordan