Rick Riordan Quotes

Never test the depth of river with both the feet.

It is best not to test the depth of a river with both feet.

The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when you're not looking. Stars line up and volcanoes birth out bits of glass that foretell the future. Poison berries make girls stronger, but sometimes kill them. If you howl at the moon and swear on your blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

Don't underestimate Camp Half-Blood.

Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.

Whoa, boy, he told himself. Golden Rule for Demigods: Thou shalt not Hokey Pokey with psychos.

Little boats should keep near shore

Humans had a saying. Mess with the bull and get the horns. Well, Harpies had a saying, too. Mess with a Harpy and die.

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

Expect poison from the standing water.

They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.

Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.

The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.

The only water in the forest is the River.

I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin and out of our everyday world. I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.

The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.

If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.

Rhine. The river that, somewhere out there, has broken free.

Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did. I don't think anyone has stones that big.

Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and become afraid. Writers do that sort of thing. They like dragons in their tales.

First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.