Amelie Halkias > Amelie's Quotes

“Find someone who loves you the way my girlfriend pushes me off a cliff. Without hesitation. With full confidence in your abilities, with the rock-steady belief that your relationship can handle it, and with complete faith that when you come out of the water, assuming you survive, you will totally forgive them for the push. Almost certainly forgive them. Probably.
Bonus points if you find someone with enough chutzpah to say Bon Voyage while they do it.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“I imagined Annabeth with silver hair and wrinkles, chuckling as she called me Seaweed Brain for the four millionth time in our lives.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“It was like a job requirement for them: 1) become a god, 2) get a cool magic thing, 3) lose it, 4) ask a demigod to find it.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“Are you kidding?” He grinned at Annabeth. “A chance to do quests, just the three of us? Like old times? The Three Musketeers!” “The Powerpuff Girls,” Annabeth suggested. “Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey,” I said. “Wait a minute,” Grover said. “I’m fine with this,” Annabeth said.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“Cool.” I used my flashlight to draw a glowing smiley face on the wall. “How old are you?” Annabeth asked. “Eight just last week.”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“Every other guest has left the castle, Harry. Why haven’t you?” “I am here to be your conscience, Adam. To save you from yourself.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Seeking Persephone

“I am sorry, Persephone,” he whispered to her as she slept. “But I cannot let you go.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Seeking Persephone

“You will, once again, have to save me from myself. You have done that, you know.” “Saved you?” “My Persephone,” he whispered in her ear. “Do you know I would have come for you no matter how far you’d gone?” “Hades always came for Persephone,” she echoed his earlier explanation. He lightly kissed her again. “And she always returned home.” “Always,” Persephone repeated. “Always.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Seeking Persephone

“Adam pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Why did Hades go after her?” he asked in a low voice, his lips still brushing her face. She barely managed to keep breathing. “He must have loved her,” she whispered. Adam’s response emerged breathless. “He must have.”
― Sarah M. Eden, Seeking Persephone

“My fatal flaw got in the way again. If I’d lost you because of my own pride …”

I took her hand. Her fingers were cold.

“You’re not getting rid of me that easy. We’ve all got our fatal flaws, right? If yours is hummus …”

She laughed weakly. “Hubris.”
― Rick Riordan, Wrath of the Triple Goddess

“I’d missed my entire junior year thanks to some business we won’t get into (Hera) on account of some meddling gods (Hera) for reasons of a cosmic apocalypse (Hera).”
― Rick Riordan, Wrath of the Triple Goddess

“Annabeth and I were more than just two people. We were a pair, and when we stood at the crossroads, we did it together.”
― Rick Riordan, Wrath of the Triple Goddess

“Annabeth often told me I would make a great dad, because I already had the right jokes—stupid, corny, and stupid.”
― Rick Riordan, Wrath of the Triple Goddess

“Books might not have much power over me, but I’m a sucker for small shiny objects.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess (Spiral-Bound) [Spiral-bound] Rick Riordan

“Back in August, my stepdad Paul had tried to help me organize my schoolwork when he saw that it was way too much for me to keep straight on my own. He suggested I think of homework as triage. “Look at your assignments like they’re wounded patients,” he’d said, “and handle them in order of severity. ‘Okay, you need immediate attention, or you’ll die. You can wait a bit. You aren’t that bad—go home, take some aspirin, and call me tomorrow.’” I gave my homework a lot of aspirin.”
― Rick Riordan, Wrath of the Triple Goddess

“I got out my whistle. I blew it. I couldn’t hear anything because of the high-pitched sound waves or whatever, but the whistle’s inscription lit up in rainbow colors—LEO+PERCY 4EVER ♥. As I may have mentioned, Leo is a doofus.”
― Rick Riordan, Wrath of the Triple Goddess

“Occasionally, somebody would ask me if I'd ever dated anybody besides Annabeth, or if I'd ever thought about dating someone else. Honestly? The answer was no.”
― Rick Riordan, Wrath of the Triple Goddess

“Have a good day at school, dear,” I told Annabeth. “Thanks, Mom!” She gave me a big wet kiss. “You guys and your public displays of affection,” Grover grumbled. On cue, Annabeth and I got on either side of him, wrapped him in a hug, and kissed him on either cheek with a big Mmm-whah! “Much better,” he muttered, blushing hard.”
― Rick Riordan, Wrath of the Triple Goddess

“How did you learn to stop crying? (Leta)
I nailed my heart shut and learned to stop caring about anyone except me. They can’t make you cry when you don’t give a shit about them or their opinions. You can only be hurt by the ones you love. (Aiden)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Upon the Midnight Clear

“I marvel at the fact you’ve lived to your age and no one’s taken those rose-colored glasses and shoved them up your ass. (Aiden)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Upon the Midnight Clear

“I’d rather have my eyes gouged out. (Urian)
If I do that, can the Simi eat them? (Simi)
You have to share if you do! (Xirena)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Upon the Midnight Clear

“One cannot be brave who has no fear.”
― Marissa Meyer, Renegades

“How can we expect people to change if we don't give them the chance to?”
― Marissa Meyer, Renegades

“So it’s your home,” Xie Lian commented.
“Residence,” Hua Cheng corrected. “Not a home.”
“Is there a difference?” Xie Lian asked.
“Of course,” Hua Cheng replied. “A home has family. A place where someone lives alone is not a home.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 2

“If you want to see me, it won’t matter what you roll. I will appear.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 2

“The love of a bone dog, she thought, bending her head down over the paw again. All that I am worth these days.

Then again, few humans were truly worth the love of a living dog. Some gifts you could never deserve.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“Lots of people deserve to die,” said the dust-wife finally. “Not everybody deserves to be a killer.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“Burn as brightly as the sun if you wish, Aris, but I will not look away.”
― Adalyn Grace, Wisteria

“Not every genius will be appreciated and too many amateurs will get the attention that others deserve -Aris”
― Adalyn Grace, Wisteria

“ONCE upon a time, when the marks on his back were still fresh, Eli told himself that he was growing wings.

After all, his mother thought Eli was an angel, even if his father said he had the devil in him.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful