The Hidden Oracle Quotes

“We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it’s going to be.” That”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Caves of blue. Strike the hue. Westward, burning. Pages turning. Indiana. Ripe banana. Happiness approaches. Serpents and roaches.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“(I know that last statement seems obvious. Everyone who meets me is fortunate, but you take my meaning.)”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Sweet Caroline.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“I’m on a roll now Boiling, burning, throwing up Lions? Hey, why not?”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“do have amazing staying power, especially when I may have been guilty of spreading them.) Using his panpipe, Woodrow reviewed the minor scales. Austin had no problem with these, even though he was challenging himself by playing the violin,”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“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

“I see.” In truth, I didn’t see. I wanted to get back to talking about my problems. I was impatient with Percy for turning the conversation to himself. Sadly, I have found this sort of self-centeredness common among demigods.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“The son of Poseidon frowned across at us. “All right, who unleashed the giant bronze guy? Apollo, did you do this?” “I am offended!” I cried. “I am only indirectly responsible for this! Also, I have a plan to fix it.” “Oh, yeah?” Percy glanced back at the destroyed dining pavilion. “How’s that going?”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“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!”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Please, Zeus, make it stop”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“yadda”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“pulling at invisible threads”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back." Last sentence of second paragraph from ToA: #1.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“a two-hundred-pound kamikaze chicken,”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“couldn’t figure out how to make a B string that stays in tune.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“A walk through the woods Voices driving me bonkers I hate spaghetti”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Breaking my promise Spectacularly failing I blame Neil Diamond”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“liquid enough to soak my clothes, icy enough to slam against my exposed face like glass shards.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“You have mortal drive and urgency. Those are things the gods often lack.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“I don’t know!”
“Tell me or I will not complete your customer service survey.”
Pete gasped.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“began to understand the terror in my victims’ eyes. I did not want an aura of death hanging over me. I definitely did not want to stand in judgment before Nico di Angelo’s father.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“How bad can one emperor be?” “Bad,” I assured her. “And he is allied with two others. We don’t know which ones, but it’s safe to assume they are equally cutthroat. They’ve had centuries to amass fortunes, acquire property, build armies…Who knows what they are capable of?” “Eh,” Leo said. “We took down Gaea in, like, forty seconds. This’ll be easy squeezy.” I seemed to recall that the lead-up to the fight with Gaea had involved months of suffering and near misses with death. Leo, in fact, had died. I also wanted to remind him that the Triumvirate might well have orchestrated all our previous troubles with the Titans and giants, which would make them more powerful than anything Leo had ever faced. I decided that mentioning these things might affect group morale.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“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

“Did you just speak to me?” The arrow quivered. (Oh, dear. That was a horrible pun. My apologies”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“in a Stockholm tavern, I met this god who was smoking hot, except his talking sword just would not shut up.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“This brings to mind an expression I coined ages ago: A peach a day keeps the plague spirits away!”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“peach baby”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Any other skills we should know about? Summoning lightning? Making toilets explode?” Meg smiled hesitantly. “That’s not a power.” “Sure it is,” Percy said. “Some of the best demigods have gotten their start by blowing up toilets.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle