Top 500 Rick Riordan Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Child of Hades, what more could I do to you? You are perfect! So much sorrow and pain!’ Nico gasped. His eyes flew open.”

— Rick Riordan

352. “Each person’s grief has its own life span; it needs to follow its own path.”

— Rick Riordan

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

— Rick Riordan

354. “And if I was humming “Happy Birthday” and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life – well, that was nobody’s business, was it?”

— Rick Riordan

355. “Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.”

— Rick Riordan

356. “You’re pretty smug, Lord Ares, for a guy who runs from Cupid statues.”

— Rick Riordan

357. “The Bifrost,’ Gunilla said. ‘The rainbow bridge leading from Asgard to Midgard.”

— Rick Riordan

358. “Grover: It’s a very sweet love story. I get misty-eyed every time I play it. So does Percy, but I think that’s because he’s laughing at me.”

— Rick Riordan

359. “The people who deserved to die took forever to do so. Those who deserved to live always went too soon.”

— Rick Riordan

360. “Hello, Hazel Levesque.”

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361. “Hope survives best at the hearth.”

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362. “You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns sour in the end. But if you take the hard path – ah, that’s how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something.”

— Rick Riordan

363. “The last time I’d seen the Minotaur, he’d been wearing nothing but his tighty whities. I don’t know why. Maybe he’d been shaken out of bed to chase me.”

— Rick Riordan

364. “Some risks are worth taking, even if it means losing a life.”

— Rick Riordan

365. “I stared at her. Maybe I wasn’t the brightest guy in the world when it came to girls, but I was pretty sure Rachel had just dumped me, which was lame considering we’d never even been together.”

— Rick Riordan

366. “I told Tantalus to go chase a doughnut.”

— Rick Riordan

367. “See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. I wasn’t aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. – Percy Jackson.”

— Rick Riordan

368. “He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.”

— Rick Riordan

369. “Manhattan has other problems. Other gods. It’s best we stay separate.”

— Rick Riordan

370. “I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn’t until I was 13 and discovered the ‘Lord of the Rings’ that I learned to love reading.”

— Rick Riordan

371. “Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I’d known what was coming, I would’ve called in sick. I could’ve avoided an army of demons, a fight with a Titan, and a trick that almost got my friends and me cast into eternal darkness. But no, I had to take my stupid English exam.”

— Rick Riordan

372. “Yours in demigodishness, and all that. Peace out!”

— Rick Riordan

373. “Far, far below, red liquid bubbled. Blood? Lava? Evil ketchup? None of the posibilities were good.”

— Rick Riordan

374. “I’d love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!”

— Rick Riordan

375. “She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn’t help thinking there was nothing hotter than a girl who didn’t mind getting her hands dirty. But of course, that was just a general comment. Didn’t apply to Calypso. Obviously.”

— Rick Riordan

376. “I gave her my deluxe I’ll-Kill-You-Later stare.”

— Rick Riordan

377. “How many fauns does it take to change a lightbulb?”

— Rick Riordan

378. “That was so completely unfair that I told Tantalus to go chase a donut, which didn’t help his mood.”

— Rick Riordan

379. “I want some time without you organic life forms.”

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380. “You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.”

— Rick Riordan

381. “Yikes! I thought. Yikes, yikes, yikes! I am eloquent in times of danger.”

— Rick Riordan

382. “Please excuse Jason from eternal damnation. He has had amnesia.”

— Rick Riordan

383. “I just love family meetings. Very cozy, with the Christmas garlands round the fireplace and a nice pot of tea and a detective from Scotland Yard ready to arrest you.”

— Rick Riordan

384. “Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days – that was sad.”

— Rick Riordan

385. “I couldn’t help thinking about my dream, with Annabeth crumpled and lifeless in Luke’s arms. Here I was rescuing baby monsters, but I couldn’t save my friend.”

— Rick Riordan

386. “Annabeth grabbed hold of my hand. Under normal circumstances, this would’ve embarrassed me, but I understood how she felt. She wanted reassurance that somebody else was alive on this boat.”

— Rick Riordan

387. “Met them. Killed them. Got the T-shirt.”

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388. “Oh, don’t mind me! Just the queen of the heavens, dying over here!”

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389. “One basketball to rule them all.”

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390. “I pictured my mom, alone in our little apartment on the Upper East Side. I tried to remember the smell of her blue waffles in the kitchen. It seemed so far away.”

— Rick Riordan

391. “Seriously, who curses you with their dying breath and says, I hope your eye twitches!”

— Rick Riordan

392. “To save a friend, you would sacrifice the world.”

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393. “A giant vulture with a girl hanging from its feet tends to attract attention.”

— Rick Riordan

394. “Piper, you’re the strongest, most powerful beauty queen I’ve ever met. You can trust yourself. For what it’s worth, you can trust me too.”

— Rick Riordan

395. “A little secret, Magnus. There is no good and evil. There’s only capable and incapable. I am capable.”

— Rick Riordan

396. “When she kissed me, I had the feeling my brain was melting right through my body.”

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397. “You Titans are about as bright as my gym socks.”

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398. “I stepped forward. Call me old-fashioned, but I wanted to keep his focus on me and not Annabeth. I think it’s polite for a guy to protect his girlfriend from instant incineration.”

— Rick Riordan

399. “Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music.”

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

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