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"Children are capable of such open rudeness."
— Trenton Lee Stewart (The Mysterious Benedict Society)

tags: children
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"The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she (Annabeth) was alive."-Percy"
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

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""Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!" "
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

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""Poison!" Grover yelped. "Don't let those things touch you or..."

"Or we'll die?" I guessed.

"Well...after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes."

"Let's avoid the swords," I decided."
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

tags: dust, humor, poison, shrivel, swords
128 people liked it

"You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search."
— Rick Riordan

tags: art, artist, painting, poem, poet, poetry
115 people liked it

""So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe."

"Yep, that pretty much covers it.""
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

123 people liked it

""What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War...Athena versus Poseidon?"

"I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you."

"Why?"

"Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?""
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

121 people liked it

"Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all."
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

tags: inspirational
114 people liked it

"My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it."
— Rick Riordan

tags: family
109 people liked it

""Something was wrong with Luke," Annabeth muttered, poking at the fire with her knife. "Did you notice the way he was acting?"

"He looked pretty pleased to me," I said. "Like he'd spent a nice day torturing heroes."

"That's not true! There was something wrong with him. He looked...nervous. He told his monsters to spare me. He wanted to tell me something."

"Probably, 'Hi, Annabeth! Sit here with me and watch while I tear your friends apart. It'll be fun!'""
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

108 people liked it

"She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did sokmethign that surprised me even more. She kissed me.
"Be careful seaweed brain." She said putting on her invisiable cap and disappearing.
I probably would have sat there all day, trying to remember my name, but then the sea demons came."
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

tags: demons, god, gods, greek, kiss
114 people liked it

"She'd also called me brave... unless she was talking to the catfish.

-Percy Jackson"
— Rick Riordan

tags: books, humor
105 people liked it

"Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?"
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

tags: glory
101 people liked it

""Dreams like a podcast,
Downloading truth in my ears.
They tell me cool stuff."

"Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad.
He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred."
"A god named Fred?""
— Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse)

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"She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts."
— Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse)

tags: funny, humor
93 people liked it

"'Love conquers all,' Aphrodite promised. 'Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?'

'Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?'

'Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.'"
— Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse)

tags: humor, love, true
100 people liked it

"Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things."
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

tags: inspirational, wits
85 people liked it

"Humans see what they want to see."
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

tags: humanity, humans, mankind
87 people liked it

"Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if the garment was stitched of trapped souls from the Fields of Punishment, trying to get out. The ADHD part of me wondered, off-task, whether the rest of his clothes were made the same way. What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear?"
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

96 people liked it

"Hermes gazed up at the stars. 'My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet--'"
— Rick Riordan (The Sea of Monsters)

88 people liked it

""The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important."

"It was probably important to her.""
— Rick Riordan (The Sea of Monsters)

tags: cadmus, died, europa, fleece, golden, humor, jackson, percy
92 people liked it

"Rachel: "They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb."
Annabeth: "Was it hard?""
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

92 people liked it

"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. "
— Rick Riordan

tags: children, people, punishment, young, youth
86 people liked it

"New lesson, class. Most monsters will vaporize when sliced with a celestial bronze sword. This change is perfectly normal, and will happen to you right now if you don't BACK OFF!" - Percy"
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

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"Rachel: You're a half-blood, too?
Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about?
Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren't human! They're half Greek god! . . . They don't seem to care."
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

89 people liked it

"With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.

-Nico"
— Rick Riordan (The Last Olympian)

96 people liked it

"It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality."
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

tags: humanity, humans, mankind, reality
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"He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatcailly.
“Green grass breaks through snow.
Artemis pleads for my help.
I am so cool.”
He grinned at us, waiting for applause.
"That last line was four syllables.” Artemis said.
Apollo frowned. “Was it?”
“Yes. What about I am so bigheaded?”
“No, no, that’s six syllable, hhhm.” He started muttering to himself.
Zoe Nightshade turned to us. “Lord Apollo has been going through this haiku phase ever since he visited Japan. Tis not as bad as the time he visited Limerick. If I’d had to hear one more poem that started with, There once was a godess from Sparta-“
“I’ve got it!” Apollo announced. “I am so awesome. That’s five syllables!” he bowed, looking very pleased with himself."
— Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse)

tags: apollo, artemis, haiku, humor
85 people liked it

"I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush." "
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

85 people liked it

"Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say."
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

tags: family, fight, relatives
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"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

tags: books, reading
897 people liked it

"Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkspell)

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"Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

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"So what? All writers are lunatics!"
— Cornelia Funke (Inkspell)

tags: humor, writing
247 people liked it

"The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart Trilogy: Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath)

tags: books, cruelty, inkheart, reading
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"When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins."
— Cornelia Funke

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"Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades."
— Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse)

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""Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can."

Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?"

Zoe blinked. "Yes. What is funny?"

"Nothing," Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. "I could use some dam french fries."

Even Thalia smiled at that. "And I need to use the dam restroom."......I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at me. "I do not understand."

"I want to use the dam water fountain," Grover said.

"And..." Thalia tried to catch her breath. "I want to buy a dam t-shirt.""
— Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse)

tags: humor
301 people liked it

"It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up."
— Rick Riordan

tags: explosions, humor, immortals, teenager
201 people liked it

"Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned.

"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." "
— Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse)

tags: acorns, curse, jackson, nightshade, percy, titan-s, zoe
199 people liked it

"Yay! Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!

Tyson"
— Rick Riordan

165 people liked it

"Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face. "
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

tags: deadlines, humor, procrastinate
153 people liked it

"Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing."
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

tags: fate, future, knowledge
77 people liked it

"Families are mess. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related, for better or worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum."
— Rick Riordan

tags: family
78 people liked it

"[My mom's] funny that way, celebrating special occasions with blue food. I think it's her way of saying anything is possible. Percy can pass seventh grade. Waffles can be blue. Little miracles like that."
— Rick Riordan (The Sea of Monsters)

tags: humor
74 people liked it

"Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong."
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

tags: love
174 people liked it

"Jumping out a window five hundred feet aboveground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck."
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

tags: battle, duck, jackson, labyrinth, percy, wings
139 people liked it

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