The Hidden Oracle Quotes

“As you wish,” I said. “Let’s find Percy Jackson”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Good luck! I’m going to get the Lord of Darkness here some Gatorade!”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Valentina Diaz, a daughter of Aphrodite, did her best to throttle a clarinet, producing sounds like a basset hound whimpering in a thunderstorm.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Annabeth.” I tried to place the name. “She’s the blond scary one?” “That’s her. I promised her specifically that I wouldn’t get myself killed while she’s gone.” “Gone?” Percy waved vaguely toward the north. “She’s in Boston for a few weeks. Some family emergency.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“A boy in the crowd gasped. ‘She’s a communist!”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“No gold-plated throne for guests Seriously, dude?”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Least he could do was help out”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Nico is going to pass out any second.” “No, I’m not,” Nico complained, then passed out.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“it was Sherman Yang’s chariot, minus Sherman Yang.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“I love the Internet! It is impossible for me to fade completely now. I am immortal on Wikipedia!”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Then who set that guitar on fire?”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“I—I believe you’re describing the 1960s. That was last century.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“My stomach solidified into a pack of ice, which was unfair, because I needed one for my head.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“A.I. will destroy us, man,”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Nothing,” I said. “Half the trick to being a god is knowing how to bluff.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“That was so beautiful!” She wiped a tear from her cheek. “What was that song?” I blinked. “It’s called tuning.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“He played with such force that he broke the D string. “You killed it!” said Chiara Benvenuti.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Athena had been lecturing us for years about how Mount Olympus might migrate to Brazil someday, and we should all be prepared for the possibility. She’d even bought the gods Berlitz Portuguese DVDs for Saturnalia presents, but what does Athena know?”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Peaches in combat I am hanging it up now My brain exploded”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Rachel put her hand over mine. “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.” That seemed hopelessly optimistic. I had spent too many centuries watching the same patterns of behavior be repeated over and over, all by humans who thought they were being terribly clever and doing something that had never been done before. They thought they were crafting their own stories, but they were only tracing over the same old narratives, generation after generation. Still…perhaps human persistence was an asset. They never seemed to give up hope. Every so often they did manage to surprise me”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Mortality”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“MY NAME IS APOLLO.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“You remind me of Iris,” I said. “She went organic vegan several decades ago.” Rhea made a face—just a ripple of disapproval before regaining her karmic balance. “Iris is a good soul. I dig her. But you know, these younger goddesses, they weren’t around to fight the revolution. They don’t get what it was like when your old man was eating your children and you couldn’t get a real job and the Titan chauvinists just wanted you to stay home and cook and clean and have more Olympian babies.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“And another thing, campers, given the problems our test group had this morning, please repeat after me: Do not end up in Peru.” “Do not end up in Peru,” everyone chanted.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Perfectly!” I hoped I was right. “Perhaps even safer than the sun chariot!” “Didn’t the sun chariot almost destroy the world once?” “Well, twice,” I said. “Three times, if you count the day I let Thalia Grace drive,”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“With thousands upon thousands of offspring, I assumed the queen ant would be the ultimate soccer mom.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“My next important discovery: Children of Hermes cannot rap.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“I don’t suppose any of you can fly?” They shook their heads. “I can cook,” Cecil offered.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“A sonnet I could have handled. A quatrain would have been cause for celebration. But only the deadliest prophecies are couched in the form of a limerick.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“(Oh, that’s a rather good image. I’ll have to use it in a haiku.)”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle