3,416 Quotes by Rick Riordan

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    Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don’t know how lucky you are.

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    Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness.

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    Maybe if I kick you in your soft spot, I thought. And make you sing soprano for a week.

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    We were ten feet away when we triggered the First Law of Percy Jackson.

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

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    A Half-Blood of the eldest gods, Shall reach sixteen against all odds And see the world in endless sleep The Hero’s soul, cursed blade shall reap A single choice shall end his days Olympus to preserve or raze.

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

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    It isn’t easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed. -Hephaestus.

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