Top 500 Rick Riordan Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “My dear, I’m a cat. Everything I see is mine.”

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

154. “Popcorn! Our fatal weakness!”

— Rick Riordan

155. “A truly great artist has many talents.”

— Rick Riordan

156. “Think positive girl, or the world ends.”

— Rick Riordan

157. “A long white ribbon shot out of the crack in the wall. The ribbon just kept coming, weaving itself into some kind of shape next to Anubis, and my first thought was, My god, he’s got a magic roll of toilet paper.”

— Rick Riordan

158. “Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument.”

— Rick Riordan

159. “Nothing like ADHD and a good fight to the death to make time fly.”

— Rick Riordan

160. “Maybe people with special gifts show up when bad things are happening because that’s when they’re needed most.”

— Rick Riordan

161. “Nothing lasts forever. But the thing is, you can reuse some. Use your mind. – Leo’s Mother, The Lost Hero.”

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

163. “The world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine. -Dionysus.”

— Rick Riordan

164. “Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else.”

— Rick Riordan

165. “We need a shroud. A shroud for the son of Hermes.”

— Rick Riordan

166. “Look, I never wanted to be a half-blood. most of the time it gets you killed in nasty, dangerous ways.”

— Rick Riordan

167. “Do you always try to kill people when they blow their nose?”

— Rick Riordan

168. “It’s not how long you live that matters. It’s what you live for.”

— Rick Riordan

169. “Nico, I’ve seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest.”

— Rick Riordan

170. “The Feast of Fortuna had nothing to do with tuna, which was fine with Percy.”

— Rick Riordan

171. “Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.”

— Rick Riordan

172. “I keep forgetting about your amnesia. Heh. Forgetting about amnesia. That’s funny.”

— Rick Riordan

173. “I’d missed Annabeth probably more than I wanted to admit.”

— Rick Riordan

174. “All right, cupcakes. You are about to see the Grand Canyon. Try not to break it. The skywalk can hold the weight of seventy jumbo jets, to you featherweights should be safe out there. If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.”

— Rick Riordan

175. “Scrawny? Baby, I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot.”

— Rick Riordan

176. “Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness. Commodus.”

— Rick Riordan

177. “What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should’ve been named ADHD poster child of the year.”

— Rick Riordan

178. “Don’t feel bad, I’m usually about to die.”

— Rick Riordan

179. “If Annabeth’s mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn’t Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff?”

— Rick Riordan

180. “With her braided hair and white dress, she seemed to glow in the moonlight.”

— Rick Riordan

181. “A Kind Act can sometimes be as Powerful as A Sword.”

— Rick Riordan

182. “He didn’t think much of fates and prophecies, but he did believe in one thing: Annabeth and he were supposed to be together.”

— Rick Riordan

183. “You missed a pedestrian,” I said. “You want to go back and hit her?”

— Rick Riordan

184. “I can see the stars again m’lady.”

— Rick Riordan

185. “I don’t define myself by the boys who may or may not like me.”

— Rick Riordan

186. “Writing is like a sport. If you don’t practice, you don’t get any better.”

— Rick Riordan

187. “My dear young cousin, if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.”

— Rick Riordan

188. “My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn’t realize they were learning.”

— Rick Riordan

189. “Laughter is a good way to hide pain”- Leo Valdez.”

— Rick Riordan

190. “Things can turn out differently, Apollo. That’s the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it’s going to be.”

— Rick Riordan

191. “It’s not bad enough I am exiled? It’s not bad enough you take away the few good heroes I’m allowed to meet? You think it’s funny to send me this this – this charbroiled runt of a boy to ruin my tranquility? This is NOT FUNNY! Take him back!”

— Rick Riordan

192. “Out of every tragedy, ” he said, “comes new strength.”

— Rick Riordan

193. “Your head is full of kelp.”

— Rick Riordan

194. “For what it’s worth: trust your feelings. I can’t promise that you’ll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it.”

— Rick Riordan

195. “Gods forbid if she ever broke up with him. She’d never be able to visit the sea again without remembering her broken heart. Annabeth about Percy.”

— Rick Riordan

196. “Aphrodite strikes again, huh? You’re gonna be the best-dressed warrior in town, beauty queen.”

— Rick Riordan

197. “Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It has to be dealt with, even embraced.”

— Rick Riordan

198. “Or maybe they’d realized I got my essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.”

— Rick Riordan

199. “A person’s shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep shadows that endured for centuries.”

— Rick Riordan

200. “We only came close to dying six or seven times which I thought was pretty good. A minute later Annabeth hit a slippery patch of moss and her foot slipped. Fortunately she found something else to put it against. Unfortunately that something was my face.”

— Rick Riordan