Rick Riordan Quotes

The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear.

Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I'll shoot him under the table." Han (to Leia)

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

I love feeling like I'm inhabiting the body of a ninja, like I could rob a liquor store with my bare hands if I wanted to.

My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

Let your plans be dark and as impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

When they [the Briton Nobles] are sufficiently inebriated, I will cry out, 'Nimed eure Saxes,' then let each draw his knife, and kill his man; but spare the king [Vortigern], on account of his marriage with my daughter, for it is better that he should be ransomed than killed.

The order said to decoy the emigrants from hiding and kill all those who could talk.

If you see a man kiss me, I better be in my casket.

I slowly climbed back to my feet, walked back into the emergency department through the silently swishing glass doors, and, covered in my girlfriend's blood, lied perfectly for the first time in my life. "I tried to stop her.

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees.

In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack." "The coffin?" I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it.

A sucker punch came flying from somewhere in the back. As soon as we can see clearly with our big black eye, we're going to light up your world like the fourth of July.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.

Cut Men's throats with whisperings.