The Hidden Oracle Quotes

“Her face was now the color of one of my sacred cattle.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“They laughed at the hellhound pee trickling down his face.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Defeating one ant had taken all my energy.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“I’ve found that when one is searching for danger, it’s never hard to find.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Immortal gods do not get acne. It is one of our inalienable rights.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“I turned toward my pint-size savior.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Nero got a dreamy look on his face. “Ah, yes…the House of Gold. It was beautiful, Meg! I had my own lake, three hundred rooms, frescoes of gold, mosaics done in pearls and diamonds—I could finally live like a human being!”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“turned my face to the sky. “If you want to punish me, Father, be my guest, but have the courage to hurt me directly, not my mortal companion. BE A MAN!” To my surprise, the skies remained silent. Lightning did not vaporize me. Perhaps Zeus was too taken aback to react, but I knew he would never overlook such an insult. To Tartarus with him. I had work to do.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Let’s have a good clean three-legged death race.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“NOSOI?” PERCY PLANTED HIS FEET in a fighting stance. “You know, I keep thinking, I have now killed every single thing in Greek mythology. But the list never seems to end.” “You haven’t killed me yet,” I noted. “Don’t tempt me.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“We are cooperating,”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Oh, my. It seems we’ve had a slight miscommunication. You see, Apollo, Meg brought you here, just as I asked her to. Well done, my sweet.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“We want you to have plenty of room so, you know, if you die, you won’t take down all the other teams too!”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Music is best played under the dome of heaven.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“I don’t know,” I admitted. “Just as you could not have known what the Labyrinth would do today. But that doesn’t mean we should stop trying. Never stop inventing, son of Hephaestus.” I gave him back his beacon.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“If you’re a demigod on the streets, you hear about the Beast. He takes people like me.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“I raised my face to the heavens. “Please, Father, I get the point. Please, I can’t do this!” Zeus did not answer. He was probably too busy recording my humiliation to share on Snapchat.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“My feet hit stone, jarring my ankles. We stumbled against a wall, but Meg provided me with a convenient cushion.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Will put his hand on Nico’s shoulder. “Nico, we need to have another talk about your people skills.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“She took one look at me, scrunched up her face, and stuck out her tongue. “You look yuck.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“It took a moment for my vision to adjust, but at the edge of the clearing stood three black ants the size of Sherman tanks. “Pete,” I said, trying to remain calm, “when you said your spotlights attracted the wrong kind of attention—” “I meant the myrmekes,” he said. “I hope this won’t affect your online review of the Woods at Camp Half-Blood.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Don’t be envious, Meg. I will make up a poem for you later. This will surely please the geyser gods!” I walked forward, spread my arms, and began to improvise:”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“And wait until you see the orientation video!” “The what?” “I directed it myself!”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Can we take a moment to appreciate that Meg did this on purpose?”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“The fact that geysers often blew their tops, spewing columns of scalding hot water hundreds of feet in the air, wasn’t going to stop me from making some new fans…I mean friends.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“harpies swooped down like a two-hundred-pound kamikaze chicken, snatched up the food, and flew away.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Then the glow became brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey. A boy in the crowd gasped. “She’s a communist!” A girl who’d been sitting at Cabin Four’s table gave him a disgusted sneer. “No, Damien, that’s my mom’s symbol.” Her face went slack as the truth sank in. “Uh, which means…it’s her mom’s symbol.” My head spun. I did not want this knowledge. I did not want to serve a demigod with Meg’s parentage. But now I understood the crescents on Meg’s rings. They were not moons; they were sickle blades. As the only Olympian present, I felt I should make her title official. “My friend is no longer unclaimed,” I announced. The other demigods knelt in respect, some more reluctantly than others. “Ladies and gentlemen,” I said, my voice as bitter as Chiron’s tea, “please give it up for Meg McCaffrey, daughter of Demeter.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Will nodded serenely. “It’s the strangest thing. Not that Nico would ever misuse his powers to get what he wants.” “Of course not,” Nico agreed.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“As long as I sit at a table with other people, like…oh, these guys for instance…the zombies stay away. Everybody’s happier.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Things can turn out differently, Apollo. That’s the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it’s going to be.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle