Rick Riordan Quotes

I'm of the establishment but anti-establishment.

fueled above all by the resistance of the forces and ideas opposed to it.

Tell the House of Lords to go to hell.

I just want to fight the world. Fight the system. Fight everybody.

I'm Keith," he said, "and you're . . . clearly mad, but what's your name?

I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

What are you gonna do if I break one of your *&^%$ing rules?

I'm Sirantha Jax, and I have had enough.

Kicking a police car? Really?' Caleb shrugged. 'Car offended me. It was sitting right where I wanted to stand. What would you do?

Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face.

My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.

I’m not a bloody cockroach. What’s all this about? What are you trying to find out?

Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.

I write out of defiance.

I wanna bite the hand that feeds me. I wanna bite that hand so badly. I want to make them wish they'd never seen me.

I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

Do you—do you think I want to—do you think I give a—I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY!" Harry roared. "You will," said Dumbledore sadly. "Because you are not nearly as mad at me as you ought to be. If you are to attack me, as I know you are close to doing, I would like to have thoroughly earned it.

I don’t like your hair black. (Artemis) And I don’t like your head attached to your shoulders. Guess we can’t all have what we want, huh? (Acheron)

I got a parking ticket one time in L.A. and I was furious about it. I was trying to prove a point to the guy who gave it to me and I put it in my mouth and chewed it up. And the guy just kept watching me, like, "Yeah?" He didn't think I was going to finish the job. So then I swallowed it. The good news is that paper is not a big deal if you eat it.You'd be full, but you could eat the phone book. So that was the weirdest thing: a parking ticket.

Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity. "No," she said, her voice quivering with anger, "but I will write to your mother.

Thou art the Mars of malcontents.

I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.