Top 500 Rick Riordan Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.”

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202. “Sounds like a plan worthy of Athena.”

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203. “Percy was getting tired of water. If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Poseidon’s Junior Sea Scouts, but he didn’t care.”

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204. “And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.”

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205. “They had a silent staring contest, but Percy didn’t back down. When he and Annabeth started dating, his mother had drummed it into his head: It’s good manners to walk your date to the door. If that was true, it had to be good manners to walk her to the start of her epic solo death quest.”

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206. “Popcorn! Our fatal weakness!”

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207. “If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?”

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208. “To foreswear romantic love forever. To never grow up, never get married. To be maiden eternally.”

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209. “Feel the wrath of wheat!”

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210. “My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and – oh, yeah – head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare time.”

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211. “Genius does not excuse evil.”

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212. “Am I a troubled kid? Yeah, you could say that.”

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213. “Before I could figure out how to apologize for being such an idiot, she tackled me with a hug, then pulled away just as quickly. “I’m glad you’re not a guinea pig.” “Me, too.” I hoped my face wasn’t as red as it felt.”

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214. “Travis: The Aphrodite kids were ripping each other’s clothes and throwing lipstick and jewellery. It was like a rabid herd of wild Bratz.”

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215. “You’re cute when you’re worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together.”

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216. “I am your friend Bob!”

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217. “Leo choked. “Your mom is a rainbow goddess?” “Got a problem with that?” Butch said. “No, no,” Leo said. “Rainbows, very macho.” “Butch is our best equestrian,” Annabeth said. “He gets along great with the pegasi.” “Rainbows, ponies,” Leo muttered. “I’m gonna toss you off this chariot,” Butch warned.”

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218. “I don’t leave her speechless very often. I have to enjoy those rare moments.”

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219. “It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years.”

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220. “Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.”

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221. “All right cupcakes listen up!”

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222. “As long as we’re together.”

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223. “So for Magic Problem-Solving 101, we headed to the training room and blew stuff up.”

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224. “It is a costly thing, looking on the true face of Love.”

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225. “My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom.”

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226. “Percy imagined what that would be like: getting an apartment in this tiny replica of Rome, protected by the legion and Terminus the OCD border god. He imagined holding hands with Annabeth at a cafe. Maybe when they were older, watching their own kid chase seagulls across the forum...”

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227. “Texting, even browsing the Internet – all these things can attract monsters.”

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228. “Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?”

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229. “I remembered the last time Annabeth and I had parted ways, when she’d given me a kiss for luck in Mount St. Helens. This time, all I got was the hat.”

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230. “It was a crazy idea. But, as usual, that’s all Percy had.”

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231. “You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.”

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232. “I think anytime you’re writing to the middle grades, you’re writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents.”

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233. “I hoped I wasn’t blushing. It was bad enough I had to depend on my mom to drive me to my battles.”

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234. “No man may be completely invulnerable.”

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235. “Hold it,” Annabeth said. “I prefer my boyfriend with an un-melted brain. What exactly are we talking about here?” Carter.”

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236. “Percy: Don’t I get a kiss for luck? It’s kind of a tradition, right? Annabeth: Come back alive, Seaweed Brain. Then we’ll see.”

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237. “Annabeth’s face, her blond hair and gray eyes, the way she laughed, threw her arms around him, and gave him a kiss whenever he did something stupid. She must have kissed me a lot, Percy thought.”

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238. “But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.”

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239. “But 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. For a goddess, that’s especially hard. We can change so easily. -Aphrodite.”

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240. “Will Solace sighed. He was, of course, tied to Nico. He propped his elbow on Nico’s shoulder as if the son of Hades were a convenient shelf.”

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241. “The thing about fate, Magnus: even if we can’t change the big picture, our choices can alter the details. That’s how we rebel against destiny, how we make our own mark.”

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

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243. “Lots of death, huh? Personally, I’m trying to avoid lots of death, but you guys have fun!”

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244. “Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.”

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245. “We were ten feet away when we triggered the First Law of Percy Jackson.”

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246. “I don’t know what my mom will do. I just know I’ll fight next to you.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because you’re my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?”

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247. “To my wonderful readers. Sorry about that apology for that last cliffhanger. I’ll try to avoid cliffhangers in this book. Well, except for maybe a few small ones... because I love you guys.”

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248. “The last thing I wanted to do on my summer break was blow up another school. But there I was Monday morning, the first week of June, sitting in my mom’s car in front of Goode High School on East 81st. Goode was this big brownstone building overlooking the East River. A bunch of BMWs and Lincoln Town Cars were parked out front. Staring up at the fancy.”

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249. “Five shall go west to the goddess in chains, One shall be lost in the land without rain, The bane of Olympus shows the trail, Campers and Hunters combined prevail, The Titan’s curse must one withstand, And one shall perish by a parent’s hand.”

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250. “You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut’s tomb? My dad’s your man.”

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