Top 500 Rick Riordan Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames.”

— Rick Riordan

202. “The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.”

— Rick Riordan

203. “She’d secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she’d fallen for him hard.”

— Rick Riordan

204. “Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I’m just smoke. She can’t touch me, right? He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!”

— Rick Riordan

205. “Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I’m wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck.”

— Rick Riordan

206. “For the rest of my life I would always be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if. -Perseus Jackson.”

— Rick Riordan

207. “Leo and Calypso’s Garage: Auto Repair and Mechanical Monsters.” “Fresh fruits and vegetables,” Calypso offered. “Cider and stew,” Leo added. “We could even provide entertainment. You could sing and I could, like, randomly burst into flames.” Calypso laughed – a clear, happy sound that made Leo’s heart go ka-bump. “See,” he said, “I’m funny.” She managed to kill her smile. “You are not funny. Now, get back to work, or no cider and stew.” “Yes, ma’am,” he said.”

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

209. “Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.”

— Rick Riordan

210. “That awkward moment when you jump out a window because your friend jumped out a window, then you remember that your other friend can fly.”

— Rick Riordan

211. “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.”

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

213. “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?”

— Rick Riordan

214. “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.”

— Rick Riordan

215. “Genius does not excuse evil.”

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

217. “My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.”

— Rick Riordan

218. “As long as we’re together.”

— Rick Riordan

219. “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.”

— Rick Riordan

220. “Feel the wrath of wheat!”

— Rick Riordan

221. “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.”

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

224. “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.”

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

228. “All right cupcakes listen up!”

— Rick Riordan

229. “I am your friend Bob!”

— Rick Riordan

230. “All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I’ve met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.”

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

235. “You can’t call a ninja lord dweeb.”

— Rick Riordan

236. “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...”

— Rick Riordan

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

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

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

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

— Rick Riordan

241. “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?”

— Rick Riordan

242. “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.”

— Rick Riordan

243. “Oh, but I don’t abide by your time frame, giant,” Reyna said. “A Roman does not wait for death. She seeks it out, and meets it on her own terms.”

— Rick Riordan

244. “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.”

— Rick Riordan

245. “You mix Greek and Roman, you know what you get? You get BAM!”

— Rick Riordan

246. “It was beautiful in a harsh I’m-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.”

— Rick Riordan

247. “I wondered if Olympus had gone to a commercial break, or if our ratings had been any good.”

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248. “I love breakfast,” Frank said. “I’d eat breakfast, breakfast, and breakfast if I could.”

— Rick Riordan

249. “Monsters don’t die. They just dissipate into smoke and dust, which saves heroes a lot of trouble cleaning up after a fight.”

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan