Rick Riordan Quotes

Everybody loves to show up at the party once all the hard work is done.

You began your journey here as a pup. Now you must find your way back. A new quest, a new start.

I try very hard to be annoying. Don’t insult my ability to annoy.

A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.

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

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

I think kids will read more good books than we can produce.

Just because you don't see me doesn't mean I wasn't there.

Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It has to be dealt with, even embraced.

Getting something and having the wits to use it... are two different things.

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

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

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

Just remember if we get caught, you're deaf and I don't speak English.

Love is powerful. It can bring the gods to their knees.

Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your corner of the world.

Tell the sun and stars hello for me.

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

No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.

Life is only precious because it ends, kid.

Knowledge of any value can't be given. It must be sought and earned.

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.

Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.

Love was the most savage monster of all.

You have to be compelled to write. If you’re, nothing else that you do matters.

I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.

Don't decide yet," Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

It's natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not.

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

Humans see what they want to see.