Rick Riordan Quotes

I acknowledge the Furies. I believe in them. I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings.

Husband, we talked about this," Persephone chided. "You can't go around incinerating every hero. Besides, he's brave. I like that." Hades rolled his eyes. "You liked that Orpheus fellow too. Look how well that turned out.

I am Persephone" she said, her voice thin and papery. "Welcome, demigods. Nico squashed a pomegranate under his boot. "Welcome? After last time, you've got the nerve to welcome me?" I shifted uneasily, because talking that way to a god can get you blasted into dust bunnies. "Um, Nico-" "It's all right," Persephone said coldly. "We had a little family spat." "Family spat?" Nico cried. "You turned me into a dandelion!

He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.

Hades was the personification of dark and dangerous--a living, breathing Batman.

I couldn't resist painting Orpheus and Charon on the River Styx. There was something strangely intriguing about seeing Orpheus playing his lyre as he is being shuttled across the river.

Sisyphus, you know, had an easy life.

The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.

[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.

The lake of fire awaits my lady

Those who are not Christians go to a place of suffering and torment called hell.

For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

You're a Demigod Percy, half god and half mortal!

I can understand the Greek idea that there are these these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to embody them, to personify them into a Athena or Aries or whichever god you want makes enormous sense.

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

Everyone would tell me they couldn't identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can't identify with the tales of the Greek gods and goddesses because they don't live on Mt. Olympus.

Cacus.” I’d had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn’t know. It’s a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don’t see the need. It’s easier just to have folks explain stuff.

Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames.

You win some and you lose some. Unless you're Virgil, then you lose them all.

He raised an eyebrow. "You claim not to know me? Of course I'm Thoth. Also called Djehuti. Also called--" I [Sadie] stifled a laugh. "Ja-hooty?" Thoth looked offended. "In Ancient Egyptian, it's a perfectly fine name. The Greeks called me Thoth. Then later they confused me with their god Hermes. Even had the nerve to rename my sacred city Hermopolis, though we're nothing alike. Believe me, if you've ever met Hermes--

What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades's underwear?

If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.

that's me. ancient history." [Poseidon to Paul]