Top 500 Rick Riordan Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood.”

— Rick Riordan

102. “Don’t underestimate Camp Half-Blood.”

— Rick Riordan

103. “I pulled out Riptide.”

— Rick Riordan

104. “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

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

— Rick Riordan

106. “You drool when you sleep.”

— Rick Riordan

107. “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

108. “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

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

113. “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

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

— Rick Riordan

115. “Whats up, Seaweed Brain?”

— Rick Riordan

116. “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

117. “Eat bitter, taste sweet.”

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

119. “All da ladies love Leo!!”

— Rick Riordan

120. “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

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

127. “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

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

139. “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

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

143. “See you on the other side. -Percy Jackson.”

— Rick Riordan

144. “To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too.”

— Rick Riordan

145. “You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”

— Rick Riordan

146. “Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it’s a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.”

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

148. “Forget the oracle. You don’t like your destiny? Write a new one.”

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

150. “Their goal was in sight. They had a Titan with a very loud kitten on their side. That had to count for something.”

— Rick Riordan