Rick Riordan Quotes

If you are going through something with one of your parents, you know that there is this feeling inside you constantly that something is wrong. Even if you want to pretend that it doesn't matter to you or you don't care, the truth of the matter is that you do, because they are your parents and you love them.

I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.

The decision [to go to war] can only come from God, the God of battles, when He shall let fall from his hands the iron dice of destiny.

Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters.

If you're a girl, you're always Daddy's little girl. You're vulnerable, no matter how worldly or sophisticated or strong you'd become along the way. My dad Lionel let me know how proud he was, even as he kept me from being too big for my britches.

My father would never have lost to Holmes.

I'm very proud of my dad.

By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life.

That man made me miss my destiny.

If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.

Benedick looked to the ceiling as though begging for divine patience. Or for the Lord to strike his sister down. Callie couldn’t quite discern which.

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.

Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life.

No luck was dumb because luck was just another name for miracle.

Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate , because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.

If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come. He is bound to no one that the world unfold just so upon its course and those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.

Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Love sells the proud heart's citadel to fate.

Duty is ours and events are God's.

There will be water if God wills it.

Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

God never does anything accidentally.