Quotes by Rick Riordan

You promised you would protect her Nico said. He might as well have stabbed me with a rusty dagger.It wouldve hurt less than reminding me of my promise.

Percy grunted. ‘Probably something to do with that creep Octavian. Maybe he was so bad at telling the future that he broke Apollo’s powers.

Percy: “You asked Poseidon for… me?” Tyson: For a friend, young cyclopes grow up alone on the streets, learns to make things out of scraps. Learn to survive. Percy: “But that’s so cruel!” Tyson: “Makes us appreciate blessings, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus. But I got scared. Monsters chased me so much, clawed me sometimes-- Percy: “The scars on your back?” Tyson: “Sphinx on Seventy-second Street. Big Bully. I prayed to Daddy for help. Soon the people at Meriwether found me. Mey you. Biggest blessing ever. Sorry I said Poseidon was mean. He sent me a brother.

That is correct, Zeus said. The blood of Olympus was spilled. She is fully conscious.Oh, come on! Percy complained. I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? Thats not fair!

So I took her hand, and I dont know what everybody else heard, but to me it sounded like a slow dance: a little sad, but maybe a little hopeful, too.

He was making a brave attempt, but Jason could see the sadness lingering in his eyes. Something had happened to him... something to do with Calypso.

Percy Jackson, Hermes said, because you have taken on the curse of Achilles, I must spare you. You are in the hands of the Fates now. But you will never speak to me like that again. You have no idea how much I have sacrificed, how much—His voice broke, and he shrank back to human size. My son, my greatest pride . . . my poor May . . .He sounded so devastated I didnt know what to say. One minute he was ready to vaporize us. Now he looked like he needed a hug.

I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down.

Then something occurred to me.Get closer, I told Blackjack.He whinnied in protest.Just within shouting distance, I said. I need to talk to the statue.Now Im sure youve lost it, boss, Blackjack said

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.

Your former friend Luke Poseidon corrected. He once promised things like that. He was Hermess pride and joy. Just bear that in mind Percy. Even the bravest can fall.

Youre cute when youre worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together.

My only thought was to keep him away from Annabeth.

Paul patted Mrs. OLearys snout. The living room shook —BOOM, BOOM, BOOM—which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door or Mrs. OLeary was wagging her tail.I couldnt help but smile.

Annabeth Thalia and I hadnt seen each other in months but between the blizzard and the thought of what we were about to do we were too nervous to talk much. Except for my mom. She talks more when shes nervous. By the time we finally got to Westover Hall it was getting dark and shed told Annabeth and Thalia every embarrassing baby story there was to tell about me.

Grover started to sniffle and I figured if I didnt cheer him up hed either start bawling or chewing up my mattress. He tends to eat household objects whenever he gets upset.

Maybe its okay to still be a kid every once in a while.

Beckendorf closed eyes tight and brought his hand up to his watch.from that distance, the explosion shook the world. Heat seared the back of my head. The Princess Andromeda blew up from both sides, a massive fireball ofgreen flame roiling into the dark sky, consuming everything....I stared out the window into deep blue water. Beckendorf was supposed to go to college in the fall. He had a girlfriend, lots of friends, his whole life ahead of him. He couldnt be gone.

You said your mom is the goddess of balance, I reminded him. The minor gods deserve better, Ethan, but total destruction isnt balance. Kronos doesnt build. He only destroys.

The Minotaur unstrapped his axe and swung it around. It was beautiful in a harsh I’m~going~togut~you~like~a~fish kind of way. Each of its twin blades was shaped like an omega: Ω—the last letter of the Greek alphabet. Maybe that was because the axe would be the last thing his victims ever saw