Never bet against a cat.
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I don’t care what your nose says! The last time you smelled half-blood, it turned out to be a meatloaf sandwich!” “Meatloaf sandwiches are good! But this is a half-blood scent, I swear. They are on board!” “Bah, your brain isn’t on board!
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Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm. “Hang on. What about traps?” He frowned. “Traps?” “Didn’t Egyptian tombs have traps?” “Well…sometimes. But this isn’t a tomb. Besides, more often they had curses, like the burning curse, the donkey curse—” “Oh, lovely. That sounds so much better.
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But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.
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Tell the sun and stars hello for me.
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I always love it when I hear back from kids who say they discovered Percy Jackson and now wear their learning difference as a badge of honour.
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Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.
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Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.
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That’s us,” he said. “Those five nuts right there.” Which one is me?” I asked. The little deformed one,” Zoe suggested. Oh, shut up.
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Young people don’t always do what they’re told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.
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Ma’at demands a leader.” “Yeah so I’ve heard.
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Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. “Leave it to us, Uncle. I’ve got a plan.” “That,” I said, “sounds like very bad news.
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You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.
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Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to “‘clean'” it, and suddenly you can’t find anything?
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Hope survives best at the hearth.
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Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don’t have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.
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