Top 500 Rick Riordan Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “The truth hit him. Jason wasn’t quite Roman anymore. His time at Camp Half-Blood had changed him. Reyna had recognized that. Apparently, so did the undead legionnaires. If Jason no longer gave off the right sort of vibe, or aura of a Roman leader...”

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352. “Happy the Dragon was not so happy.”

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353. “We were just looking at maps...”

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354. “The spirit of the wild must pass to all of you now. You must tell each one you meet: if you would find Pan, take up Pan’s spirit. Remake the wild, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world. You cannot wait for anyone else, even a god, to do that for you.”

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355. “Even when she looked scared, she had a lot of guts.”

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356. “He could’t have survied a hundred foot drop. I’m sorry Annabeth.”

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357. “Teach you to try marrying me, you idiot!”

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358. “You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you. – Pan.”

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359. “She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades’s gym shorts.”

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360. “Our secret weapon, Khione! We’re not just a bunch of demigods. We’re a team.”

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361. “The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come to kill us.”

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362. “You are one freaking awesome baboon.”

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363. “I wasn’t aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.”

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364. “Don’t Worry, Be Hapi.”

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365. “Kids are baby goats. They’re cute and they have redeeming social value. You are definitely not kids.”

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366. “Percy looked at his friends. “I’m getting tired of this guy’s shirt.” “Combat time?” Piper grabbed her horn of plenty. “I hate wonder bread,” Jason said. Together, they charged.”

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

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

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369. “The meeting was like a war council with donuts. Then again, back at Camp Half-Blood they used to have their most serious discussions around the Ping-Pong table in the rec room with crackers and Cheez Whiz, so Percy felt right at home.”

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370. “Bob says hello,” he told the stars.”

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371. “I didn’t answer, but, please – nothing is obvious with boys. For such simple creatures, they are quite baffling.”

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372. “I gave her a smile that I hoped conveyed something like: Hey, you know I’m on your side. Gods are such jerks! But what can you do? Probably my expression actually conveyed: It’s not my fault! Please do not kill me!”

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373. “If not for the horses, Piper would’ve died.”

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374. “Leo fell in love with every girl he saw-as long as she was completely out of his league.”

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375. “Leo had seen Tia Callida in action; she liked knives, snakes and putting babies in roaring fires. Yeah, definitely let’s unleash her rage. Great idea.”

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376. “I’ve always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.”

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377. “And flash him!” Annabeth’s face reddened. “That came out wrong. But yeah, good idea.”

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378. “Being a half-blood is dangerous. It’s scary. Most of the time, it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways.”

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379. “If somebody offers you Hapi pills, just say no!”

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380. “Feeling groovy, I’m Drowning, freezing, snake surfing Life is good, Batman!”

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381. “And I was holding someone who was destined to be my best friend, or possibly my worst enemy.”

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382. “June cackled with delight, muttering, “Whoops!” as a car almost killed them.”

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383. “A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.”

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384. “Well that was sucktastic.”

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385. “I thought maybe he was seeing another tree. – Juniper.”

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386. “I wasn’t sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what.”

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387. “Tag with plague spirits You’re it, and you’re infectious Have fun with that, LOL.”

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388. “Just for you non-sea-god types out there, don’t go swimming in New York Harbor. It may not be as filthy as it was in my mom’s day, but that water will still probably make you grow a third eye or have mutant children when you grow up.”

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389. “I got ready for bed and crawled in. The covers were comfortable and warm, but the pillow was just too weird. It gave me neck cramps, so I put it on the floor and went to sleep without it. My first big mistake.”

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390. “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.”

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391. “I could hear hopefulness in her voice, but also doubt. She was waiting for me to admit the obvious: I’d forgotten. I was toast. I was boyfriend roadkill.”

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392. “Staplers – Excellent source of iron.”

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393. “If my mom told one more story about how cute I looked in the bathtub when I was three years old I was going to burrow into the snow and freeze myself to death.”

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394. “Never bet against a cat.”

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395. “Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don’t have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.”

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

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397. “I like flying cars. I prefer it when the car is actually capable of flight, however.”

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

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

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

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