Quotes by "Rick Riordan"

With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.

Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.

In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

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

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

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.

It's okay,” he said. “We're together.” He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive. After all they'd been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that.

Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy’s ear. “I love you.” She wasn’t sure he could hear her—but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words.

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