The Hidden Oracle Quotes

“I will not say my life passed before my eyes. I wish it had. That would've taken several months, giving me time to figure out an escape plan.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Buck-naked statue A Neurotic Colossus Where art thy undies?”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Malcolm looked like the perfect battlefield commander, except for the fact that he’d forgotten his pants. His red briefs made quite a statement with his sword and leather cuirass.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Still, it took all our strength to lead him out of the trees. I was reminded of the time Hephaestus and I had to wrestle the god Hypnos back to bed after he sleepwalked into Artemis’s private chambers on Mount Olympus. It’s a wonder any of us escaped without silver arrows pincushioning our posteriors.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“You’re beautiful and everyone loves you.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Seven-layer dip Chocolate chip cookies in blue I love this woman”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“The word smacked me in the face like Ares’s body odour. I turned to Austin. ‘The Labyrinth? As in Daedalus’s Labyrinth?’ Austin nodded, his fingers worrying the ceramic camp beads around his neck. I had a sudden memory of his mother, Latricia – the way she used to fiddle with her cowry necklace when she lectured at Oberlin. Even I learned things from Latricia Lake’s music theory class, though I had found her distractingly beautiful. ‘During the war with Gaia,’ Austin said, ‘the maze reopened. We’ve been trying to map it ever since.’ ‘That’s impossible,’ I said. ‘Also insane. The Labyrinth is a malevolent sentient creation! It can’t be mapped or trusted.’ As usual, I could only draw on random bits and pieces of my memories, but I was fairly certain I spoke the truth. I remembered Daedalus. Back in the old days, the king of Crete had ordered him to build a maze to contain the monstrous Minotaur. But, oh no, a simple maze wasn’t good enough for a brilliant inventor like Daedalus. He had to make his Labyrinth self-aware and self-expanding. Over the centuries, it had honeycombed under the planet’s surface like an invasive root system. Stupid brilliant inventors.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“I—I don’t know where I’ve been,” I admitted. “I have some memory gaps.” Percy winced. “I hate memory gaps. Last year I lost an entire semester thanks to Hera.” “Ah, yes.” I couldn’t quite remember what Percy Jackson was talking about. During the war with Gaea, I had been focused mostly on my own fabulous exploits. But I suppose he and his friends had undergone a few minor hardships.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Oh, gods – bacon! I promised myself that once I achieved immortality again I would assemble the Nine Muses and together we would create an ode, a hymnal to the power of bacon, which would move the heavens to tears and cause rapture across the universe. Bacon is good.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Nico,’ I said at last, ‘shouldn’t you be sitting at the Hades table?’ He shrugged. ‘Technically, yes. But if I sit alone at my table strange things happen. Cracks open in the floor. Zombies crawl out and start roaming around. It’s a mood disorder. I can’t control it. That’s what I told Chiron.’ ‘And is it true?’ I asked. Nico smiled thinly. ‘I have a note from my doctor.’ Will raised his hand. ‘I’m his doctor.’ ‘Chiron decided it wasn’t worth arguing about,’ Nico said. ‘As long as I sit at a table with other people, like … oh, these guys for instance … the zombies stay away. Everybody’s happier.’ 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

“THOU SHALT NOT, it told me.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“I try to avoid weapons that talk. I find them rude and distracting. Once, Artemis had a bow that could cuss like a Phoenician sailor.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“I believe,” I said, “the Colossus sneezed his head off.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“You have another idea?’ I asked Meg. ‘Preferably one that does not involve dying?”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Parenting advice: Mamas, don’t let your larvae Grow up to be ants”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“This time I could not argue with her logic. Despite my fervour to rush into the woods and save my children, I had to proceed cautiously. I could not mess up this rescue.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Did you just speak to me?” The arrow quivered. (Oh, dear. That was a horrible pun. My apologies.) YEA, VERILY. PRITHEE, SHOOTING IS NOT MY PURPOSE. His voice was definitely male, sonorous and grave, like a bad Shakespearean actor’s. “But you’re an arrow,” I said. “Shooting you is the whole point.” (Ah, I really must watch those puns.)”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Eh,” Leo said. “We took down Gaea in, like, forty seconds.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“He looked about as worried as it is possible for a man to look”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Buck-naked”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“She amused herself by picking up small rocks and tossing them into the woods. That, I didn’t mind. I happily would’ve given her a catapult if I had one.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Kudos to the Imperial Guard for having stupid amounts of courage.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“It’s my fault Python retook Delphi,”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Yes—that may be the title of the song: “Bacon Is Good.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Excercise is nothing more than a depressing reminder that one is not a god.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“warmed my heart that my children had the right priorities: their skills, their images, their views on YouTube. Say what you will about gods being absentee”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“The Victor twins had stuffed wads of cotton in their ears to foil the oracular voices. Julia”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“You’ve got to be kid—
Well, crud, what just happened there?
I ran out of syl—”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“They have no chill whatsoever.” “I thought that was a more modern term.” “Evil?” “No. Chill.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“I could hit people with my ukulele.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle