Quote

She stared at me. Fly, ole, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of the sky, AND carrying a weapon that has more destructive power than a nuclear bomb? Yeah, I said. Pretty much exactly like that.

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
Exactly
Airplane
Yeah
Strike
Weapons
Weapon
Zeus
Pretty
Bombs
Warned
Power
Destructive
Stared
Much
Strikes
Lest
Never
Nuclear
Bomb
Like
Sky
Carrying

More quotes by Rick Riordan

Image
She sacrificed her life to make things right, Mitchell grumbled. She[Silena Beuregard] was a hero
Rick Riordan
Image
I was glad to be with her, but it also kind of hurt, and it hurt when I wasn't with her, too.
Rick Riordan
Image
Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine.
Rick Riordan
Image
Dejardins was so stunned, he momentarily forgot how to speak English. Ce n'est pas possible. On ne pourrait pas-
Rick Riordan
Image
Thoth's beak! You are impossibley stubborn. Yeah, it's a gift.
Rick Riordan
Image
Now, now, Bast said. It's not so bad. Right, I said. We're stuck in Washington, D.C. We have two days to make it to Arizona and stop a god we don't know how to stop. And if we can't, we'll never see our dad or Amos again, and the world might end. That's the spirit! Bast said brightly. Now, let's have a picnic.
Rick Riordan
Image
It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.
Rick Riordan
Image
I always love it when I hear back from kids who say they discovered Percy Jackson and now wear their learning difference as a badge of honour.
Rick Riordan
Image
Percy looked at his friends. I'm getting tired of this guy's shirt. Combat time? Piper grabbed her horn of plenty. I hate wonder bread, Jason said. Together, they charged.
Rick Riordan
Image
I turned and found Dionysus standing there, still in his black suit. Walk with me,” he said. Where to?” I asked suspiciously. Just to the campfire,” he said. “I was beginning to feel better, so I thought I would talk with you a bit. You always manage to annoy me.” Uh, thanks.
Rick Riordan
Image
I think every writer struggles in some way with writers block. The trick is to plan out what you are going to say beforehand. I found out that if you make an outline you're much less likely to get blocked when you get into the middle of the story.
Rick Riordan
Image
Which meant his only assets were one whiny imprisoned goddess, one sort-of-girlfriend with a dagger, and Leo, who apparently thought he could defeat the armies of darkness with breath mints.
Rick Riordan
Image
Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.
Rick Riordan
Image
Egypt is the First Nome. New York is the twenty-first. What’s the last one, the Three-hundred-and-sixtieth?” “That would be Antarctica,” Zia said. “A punishment assignment. Nothing there but a couple of cold magicians and some magic penguins.” “Magic penguins?” “Don’t ask.
Rick Riordan
Image
Leo grabbed the neasrest thing he could find- a Porta-Potty seat- and threw it at the face. Leve me alone!
Rick Riordan
Image
Sure, sis!' Then he raised his hands in a stop everything gesture. 'I feel a haiku coming on.
Rick Riordan
Image
Everyone hates clowns, Otis said. Even other clowns hate clowns.
Rick Riordan
Image
I can see the stars again m'lady.
Rick Riordan
Image
The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come to kill us.
Rick Riordan
Image
We don’t have much time. Mel will be out of the restroom soon.” “You’ve got a magician named Mel?
Rick Riordan