Daughter of the Deep Quotes

“The impossible is merely the possible for which we don't yet know the science”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“The best science fiction can shape how humans see their own future.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“My dear, dying is nothing to be embarrassed about. It happens to everyone.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“I never realized how much of leadership is learning to sound confident when you're actually terrified.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“I hold up two fingers. 'How many fingers?'
He squints. 'Twenty-five?'
'Yeah, you'll be fine.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“Given the choice between destruction or lasagna, I will choose lasagna every time.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“Atlantis was just a theme park that went terribly wrong.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“Nature’s creative power
is far beyond man’s
instinct of destruction. —Jules Verne,
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“I suppose I should get this out of the way. Harding-Pencroft is a five-year high school. We’re divided into four houses, based on the results of our aptitude tests. We call the academy HP for short. And, yes, we’ve heard all the Harry Potter jokes. Thanks anyway.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“I'm a Dolphin. I believe that communication can solve any problem if the parties have the will and the intelligence to learn to understand each other.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“Nothing happens.
Then, suddenly...still nothing happens.
Five more minutes pass. More nothing.
The minutes turn into an hour. Funny how that happens when you put sixty of them together.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“I guess what I'm saying is, I don't have many connections. So the ones I do have are important.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“Desperate times call for desperate comfort foods.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“don’t know what Land Institute’s school motto is, but I want it to be This is why we can’t have nice things.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“I’ve learned that the world doesn’t care what is right for me. I have to make it care.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“Absolute power can corrupt anyone.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“Top sits at my feet and wags his tail. He gives me his most soulful stare. I’m a very good boy. I almost killed someone earlier.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“Perhaps it started when, at the age of ten, I picked up a starfish by one of its arms…and soon found myself holding a single wiggling appendage. At the time, I didn’t know that starfish arms could regenerate. I believed I was a murderer. I fell to my knees and bellowed with horror. (CURSE YE, FORMIDABLE MIGHT! SUCH INNOCENCE…DESTROYED! DOES THIS MEAN I CAN PERMANENTLY SKIP GYM?)”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“Yesterday was about shock, uncertainty, fear. Our world was shattered. Today, we have to figure out how to reassemble ourselves from the broken pieces.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“Then again, our labels always depend on who’s doing the labeling. Patriot, freedom fighter, terrorist, thug.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“I’ve heard “experts” say that autistic people have trouble with empathy, but sometimes I wonder if these experts have ever actually sat down and talked to autistic people.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“He didn't believe in humanity. He didn't believe in himself. He tried and failed to change the world - and ended up being written off as a fictional character.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“I'm just saying that people are complicated. Nemo was a different man by the time Harding and Pencroft met him: older, bitter, disillusioned. That's why he wanted his technology hidden away and guarded. HP was motivated by Nemo's caution - paranoia, even. So you've got two completely different schools, Land Institute and Harding-Pencroft, inspired by different sides of the same person.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“Here's the thing about life-shattering days.

They start just like any other day. You don't realize your world is about to explode into a million smoking pieces of awfulness until it's too late.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“Babe, our understanding of the laws of science changes all the time. We've only got so many senses. We have such a narrow perspective on reality”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“But that tech also led to nuclear power, cancer treatments and long-range space exploration, right? Tech can be good and bad.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“The alt-tech aspirin seems to be stitching my skull back together in the most painful way possible. "Those are my two choices of which Nemo I want to be? The angry one or the paranoid one?'

'No.' Ester jots something down - hopefully not therapy notes. Maybe Dev fell into that trap. He thought he had to choose. Maybe you don't have to. You both have some Dakkar personality traits, sure. But you can decide to be a different kind of Captain Nemo.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“I can't trust Dev. I don't know if ill ever be able to, but I do love him. He's still my brother. Maybe he can start to realize what he has done and how far he needs to climb to come back to me. I have to be strong for him as I was for my crew. I stand over him as he cries, and I watch the flowers of the sea changing color in the light of the Nautilus. I say goodbye to my mother and father. I say a prayer for my brother, and for the future. I will not give up on either of them”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“How to make twenty freshmen hyperactive: 1. Give them access to an espresso machine. 2. Offer them a safe haven after seventy-two hours of running from death. 3. Feed them a home-cooked meal made by an orangutan. 4. Tell them that tomorrow, they will get to see a make-believe submarine from the 1800s that is actually not make-believe.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“There are too many things we have to hope for. Right now, our supply of hope feels as limited as our food and water.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep