Rick Riordan Quotes

I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then.

Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?

The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem - it's reality.

Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full, is the only way to have our heart be full and open.

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.

It was a hard lesson to learn, but eventually I had to come to grips with the fact that I cannot solve everyone's problems and lead them to a happy, fulfilled life. They have to figure that out on their own.

These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace.

We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.

Only the defeated know LOVE. because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose.

If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.

You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.

It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

It is courageous to occasionally admit that there are certain things one can't do.

I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

The risk that is involved in trusting is stepping forth with willingness with a knowing that you can lose something or fail, and doing it anyways

It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life.

You cannot fix a problem that you refuse to acknowledge.

When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet it's the moment of being that disappointment which is fruitful; and, if we are not willing to do that, at least we should notice that we are not willing. The moment of disappointment in life is an incomparable gift that we receive many times a day if we're alert. This gift is always present in anyone's life, that moment when 'It's not the way I want it!

When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.