Quote

Now, sorry about that kill-on-sight business.

Rick Riordan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Rick Riordan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 5
Author
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Military City
USA
Richard Russell Riordan
Jr.
Richard Russell Riordan Jr
Sorry
Sight
Kill
Business

More quotes by Rick Riordan

Image
Two farewell gifts, Sadie muttered, from two gorgeous guys. I hate my life.
Rick Riordan
Image
Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon.
Rick Riordan
Image
Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.
Rick Riordan
Image
Back in Khufu's day I knew a magician who parted the Nile just so he could climb to the bottom and retrieve a girl's necklace. Then there was that Israelite fellow, Mickey. Moses? Yeah, him.
Rick Riordan
Image
No, Frank said. I'm only a centurion. Jason cursed in Latin. He means he can't control a whole legion. He's not of high enough rank. Nico swung back his black sword at another gryphon. Well, then, promote him!
Rick Riordan
Image
I am your friend Bob!
Rick Riordan
Image
Think long and hard about how you proceed, Nico di Angelo. You cannot lie to Cupid. If you let your anger rule you... well, your fate will be even sadder then mine.
Rick Riordan
Image
Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. Does Zeus really have lightning bolts that do six hundred damage? Does he get extra movement points for— Nico, shut up! Bianca put her hands to her face. This is not your stupid Mythomagic game, okay? There are no gods!
Rick Riordan
Image
Frank didn’t drop you on purpose,” she said. “He’s not like that. He’s just a little clumsy sometimes.” “Oops,” Leo said, in his best Frank Zhang voice. “Dropped Leo into a squad of enemy soldiers. Dang it!
Rick Riordan
Image
How did you die? We er....drowned in a bathtub. All three of you? It was a big bathtub.
Rick Riordan
Image
You put the Set animal in your locker? Do you know how much strength that requires?” “Yeah,” I said. “I was there.
Rick Riordan
Image
There's no point in defending camp if you guys die. All our friends are here.
Rick Riordan
Image
so mortals tend to see only what they can understand.
Rick Riordan
Image
glancing back I got my first clear look at the monster. He was seven feet tall, easy, his arms and legs like something from the cover of Muscle Man magazine-bulging biceps and triceps and a bunch of other 'ceps, all stuffed like baseballs under vein-webbed skin. He wore no clothes except underwear-I mean, bright white fruit of the Looms.
Rick Riordan
Image
I wanted to keep things as normal as possible for the trainees, so I led my usual morning class. I called it Magic Problem-Solving 101. The trainees called it Whatever Works.
Rick Riordan
Image
Laistry....I can't even say that. What would you call them in English? Canadians.
Rick Riordan
Image
I think I write for reluctant readers. Of course I want everyone to enjoy my books, but if the kids in the back row who normally don't pick up a book are engaged with what I'm writing, along with the kids who are big readers anyway, then I really feel like I've done my job.
Rick Riordan
Image
The Death Mist is not for helping! Akhlys shrieked. It shrouds mortals in misery as their souls pass into the Underworld. It is the very breath of Tartarus, of death, of despair! Awesome, Percy said. Could we get two orders of that to go?
Rick Riordan
Image
I had a crush on Percy, Nico spat. That's the truth. That's the big secret.
Rick Riordan
Image
We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.
Rick Riordan