Rick Riordan Quotes

The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.

Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this.

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.

Nothing in my life is going right, right now and there's got to be a reason for that. I think that God is trying to get my attention to tell me that this is going to end very, very badly if I don't walk away from it.

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

The world is on fire! And you are laughing? You are deep in the dark. Will you not ask for a light?

When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.

A man says to the doctor: "What's the good news?" "You've got 24 hours to live." He says: "What's the bad news?" The doctor says: "We should have told you yesterday."

How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread.

Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.

I've been on every diet in the world. I've been on Slim-Fast. For breakfast you have a shake. For lunch, you have a shake. For dinner, you kill anyone with food on their plate.

I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.

Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.

Rache,” he said, trying to get into my line of sight. “What more do you need? God to send a telegram?" (Jenks)

Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.

The usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA , then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all, and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all.

How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized

If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.

Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said. Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y.

In between the Queen and the First Lady, Nancy Reagan, sat Tony Richardson, looking very calm. Later on it emerged that this was because, having not been apprised of the placement until he was about to sit down, he had died of fright. To have expired was to be fortunate.

I was terrified that the wild boar might be attacking my father, and so I prayed to God - if he existed - to protect him and to direct the boar against my uncle instead, who believed in heaven, and therefore was more willing to die.

Never waste a good crisis.

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

What kind of world is this? And what do you do about it? What do you do when the worst thing that can happen actually happens?