Riley McComber > Riley's Quotes

“She was a void, an abyss, a vacuum in the brain department. She could have run for congress.”
― Anna Jones Buttimore

“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
― William Wilberforce

“Aren't you tired of lies? I am...”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

“You must choose which stones to carry, for if you try to carry them all, you will be dragged down by their weight and drown in the depths. But you may find that as you swim, you grow stronger for the stones in your pockets. You may find you can carry more than you knew.”
― Amie Kaufman, Beyond the End of the World

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Now, come over here so I can pat you down."
"But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure."
He stood next to the armless statue. Terminus conducted a rigorous mental pat down.
"You seem to be clean," Terminus decided. "Do you have anything to declare?"
"Yes," Percy said. "I declare that this is stupid.”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

“A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

“If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.”
― William Wilberforce

“Hey, I'm a Poseidon kid. I can't drown, and neither can my pancakes.”
― Rick Riordan

“Halleluiah, another teenage boy was even stupider than I was. I looked positively good and normal compared to Tyler Crowley, even if I was an obsessed emo-psycho stalker.”
― Anna Jones Buttimore, Twilight: Midnight Sunburn: A light parody of Midnight Sun

“it almost didn’t matter that I had possibly exposed our family’s secret, put us all in terrible danger, and mussed up my hair.”
― Anna Jones Buttimore, Twilight: Midnight Sunburn: A light parody of Midnight Sun

“Maybe it was plain old hell, Gehenna, the underworld, Gre'Thor, Detroit.”
― Anna Jones Buttimore