3,416 Quotes by Rick Riordan

People like to be seen—even if it’s by the cold, cruel eyes of fate.

I have brought you a hero's fate, and a hero's fate is never happy. It is anything but tragic.

It has to be a…”He wanted to say a coincidence, but he couldn’t make himself believe that. Over the past few years he’d seen a lot of things: destiny, prophecy, magic, monsters, fate. But he’d never yet run across a coincidence.

Math test tomorrow.Check.Complete lack of preparation for test.Check.

The thing about fate, Magnus: even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the details. That's how we rebel against destiny, how we make our mark. What will you choose to do?

Even here in the Underworld, everybody - even monsters - needed a little attention once in a while.

This did not seem to reassure Nico.“I don’t like being in the dark,” he muttered.An odd complaint for a child of Hades, but I understood what he meant.

I should’ve been very cross with Anubis. Kissing me without permission—the nerve!

everybody-even monsters-needed a little attention once in a while.