Top 500 Rick Riordan Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpion.”

— Rick Riordan

252. “Maybe it’s okay to still be a kid every once in a while.”

— Rick Riordan

253. “The coach launched himself at the spirit with some serious goat fu – lashing out with his hooves, knocking Leo free from the spirit’s grasp.”

— Rick Riordan

254. “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

255. “I felt like one of Apollo’s sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.”

— Rick Riordan

256. “Thalia blushed. “Hi, Lord Apollo.” Zeus’s girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be a tree, didn’t you? Glad you’re back. I hate it when pretty girls turn into trees. Man, I remember one time –.”

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257. “I’d like to say I took the news well. The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time. – Percy Jackson.”

— Rick Riordan

258. “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

259. “Number eight, the silver one, belongs to Artemis. She vowed to be a maiden forever. So of course, no kids. The cabin is, you know, honorary. If she didn’t have one, she’d be mad.”

— Rick Riordan

260. “Love was the most savage monster of all.”

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261. “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

262. “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

263. “Perseus, you are not the hero.”

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264. “Oh, I wouldn’t say Love always makes you happy. Sometimes it makes you incredibly sad.”

— Rick Riordan

265. “If I’m going to burn, I might as well burn bright. This is for Jason.”

— Rick Riordan

266. “The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.”

— Rick Riordan

267. “Annabeth came up to me. She was dressed in black camouflage with her Celestial bronze knife strapped to her arm and her laptop bag slung over her shoulder – ready for stabbing or surfing the Internet, whichever came first.”

— Rick Riordan

268. “I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Holla Mayne!”

— Rick Riordan

269. “Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.”

— Rick Riordan

270. “Annabeth’s voice caught on the word friend. Percy was a lot more than that. Even boyfriend really didn’t cover it. They’d been through so much together, at this point Percy was part of her – a sometimes annoying part, sure, but definitely a part she could not live without.”

— Rick Riordan

271. “My name is Magnus Chase. I’m sixteen years old. This is the story of how my life went downhill after I got myself killed.”

— Rick Riordan

272. “Her freckles were orange, as if somebody had spray-painted her face with liquid Cheetos.”

— Rick Riordan

273. “As for me, I did the stupidest thing in my life, which is saying a lot. I attacked the Titan Lord Atlas.”

— Rick Riordan

274. “We choose to believe in Ma’at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That’s what Egypt is all about.”

— Rick Riordan

275. “We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.”

— Rick Riordan

276. “A weapon, I told Horus. I need a weapon. I reached into the Duat and pulled out an ostrich feather. “Really?” I yelled. Horus didn’t answer.”

— Rick Riordan

277. “Power makes good people uneasy rather than joyful or boastful. That’s why good people so rarely rise to power.”

— Rick Riordan

278. “My people were the original Athenians – the gemini.” “Like your zodiac sign?” Percy asked. “I’m a Leo.” “No, stupid,” Leo said. “I’m a Leo. You’re a Percy.”

— Rick Riordan

279. “The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.”

— Rick Riordan

280. “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

281. “I am never, ever, going to make things easy for you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it.”

— Rick Riordan

282. “Once I got over the fact that my Latin teacher was a horse, we had a nice tour, though I was careful not to walk behind him. I’d done pooper-scooper patrol in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade a few times, and, I’m sorry, I did not trust Chiron’s back the the way I trusted his front.”

— Rick Riordan

283. “My name is Carter Kane. I’m fourteen and my home is a suitcase.”

— Rick Riordan

284. “Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.”

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

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286. “If You Understand What Happens in This Chapter, Please Tell Me, Because I Have No Clue.”

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287. “I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher.”

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288. “It’s natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not...”

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289. “The dead aren’t scary. They are just sad.”

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290. “Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.”

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291. “That’s what being a demigod was all about, not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature.”

— Rick Riordan

292. “Nico leaned over and plucked a grape. Probably that was the guy’s entire diet for the day.”

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293. “It’s useless to lecture a human.”

— Rick Riordan

294. “What’s the best part of being in Hermes cabin? Connor: You are never lonely. I mean seriously, new kids are always coming in. So you always have someone to talk to. Travis: Or prank. Connor: Or pickpocket. One big happy family.”

— Rick Riordan

295. “The Greeks described her eyes as ‘oxlike’. Believe it or not, that was a compliment. It meant she had large, soft brown eyes that you could get lost in. I guess the Greeks spent a lot of time staring at oxen.”

— Rick Riordan

296. “Now fight me! For today thee House of Hades will be called the saviors of Olympus.”

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297. “We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness.”

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298. “Leo looked like a Latino Santa’s elf, with curly black hair, pointy ears, a cheerful, babyish face, and a mischievous smile that told you right away this guy should not be trusted around matches or sharp objects. His long, nimble fingers wouldn’t stop moving – drumming on the seat, sweeping his hair behind his ears, fiddling with the buttons of his army fatigue jacket. Either the kid was naturally hyper or he was hopped up on enough sugar and caffeine to give a heart attack to a water buffalo.”

— Rick Riordan

299. “He warned me the greediest wishes cause the greatest sorrows.”

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300. “I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.”

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