Rick Riordan Quotes

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Every labyrinth has its minotaur

Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. “A trap?” “Probably,” Frank said. “She’s not mortal,” Hedge said, sniffing the air. “Probably some kind of goat-eating, demigod-destroying fiend from Tartarus.” “No doubt,” Percy agreed. “Awesome.” Hedge grinned. “Let’s go.

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

Who's next?

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.

I am always the type of person who is waiting for the other shoe to drop and for it to peter out and end. And if it does that's fine.

She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in a collective breath, and then you can hear a pin drop, and I'm feeling nauseous and so desperately hoping that it's not me, that it's not me, that it's not me. Effie Trinket crosses back to the podium, smoothes the slip of paper, and reads out the name in a clear voice. And it's not me. It's Primrose Everdeen.

I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door".

There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.

You in trouble?” Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he’s thinking about how to get out of here if I am.

Erlking,” I told her. “Big-time bad guy. Wants to eat me.” “Why?” she asked. “Well. I met him,” I said.

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

One of the best lessons I've ever gotten in my life is to anticipate nothing because it's always worse in your head than it really is.

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.

Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.

What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.

I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.