Trials Of Apollo Quotes

“Oh, why does college have to happen to perfectly good people?”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Promise me one thing. Whatever happens, when you get back to Olympus, when you’re a god again, remember. Remember what it’s like to be human.”
― Rick Riordan, The Burning Maze

“Caves of blue.
Strike the hue.
Westward, burning.
Pages turning.
Indiana.
Ripe banana.
Happiness approaches.
Serpents and roaches.

There once was a god named Apollo
Who plunged in a cave blue and hollow
Upon a three-seater
The bronze fire-eater
Was forced death and madness to swallow”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“This brings to mind an expression I coined ages ago: A peach a day keeps the plague spirits away!'
Percy sneezed. 'I though it was apples and doctors.'
The karpos hissed.
'Or peaches,' Percy said. 'Peaches work too.'
'Peaches,' agrees the karpos.
Percy wiped his nose. 'Not criticizing, but why is her grooting?”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“No good news awaits
I warned you right at the start
Turn away, reader”
― Rick Riordan, The Burning Maze

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

“Die," I repeated.
"Yeah."
"Not disappear, not wouldn't come back, not suffer defeat."
"Nope. Die. Or more accurately, three letters, starts with D."
"Not dad then," I suggested. "Or dog.”
― Rick Riordan, The Burning Maze

“Meg peered at me over the top of her glasses. “You’re the dumbest god ever”
― Rick Riordan, The Tyrant's Tomb

“Then the glow grew brighter: 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

“May the gods defend me from heroes with duct tape. And heroes always seem to have duct tape.”
― Rick Riordan, The Burning Maze

“I hated visiting Hephaestus’s office. His desk toys were so mesmerizing I found myself staring at them for hours, sometimes decades. I missed the entire 1480s that way”
― Rick Riordan, The Tyrant's Tomb

“You've got to be kid-
Well, crud, what just happened there?
I ran out of syl-”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“To call the place an anthill would be like calling the Versailles Palace a single-family home. Earthen ramparts rose almost to the tops of the surrounding trees--a hundred feet at least. The circumference could have accommodated a Roman hippodrome. A steady stream of soldiers and drones swarmed in and out of the mound. Some carried fallen trees. One, inexplicably, was dragging a 1967 Chevy Impala.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“It's not how long you live that matters. It's what you live for." -Josephine to Apollo (Trials of Apollo: Book 2 The Dark Prophecy)”
― Rick Riordan

“STARTEST THOU: “PLAGUEY, PLAGUEY, PLAGUEY.”
“The enchantment does not start plaguey, plaguey, plaguey!”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Sorry to intrude on your intrusion”
― Rick Riordan

“All we did was show Harpocrates how much you've changed... Have you completely made up for all the bad things you've done? No. But you keep adding to the 'good things' column. That's all any of us can do.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb

“The Dark Prophecy
The words that memory wrought are set to fire,
Ere new moon rises o'er the Devils Mount.
The changeling lord shall face a dire,
Till bodies fill the Tiber beyond count.

Yet southward the sun now trace its course,
Through mazes dark to lands of scorching death
To find the master of the swift white horse
And wrest from him the crossword speaker's breath.

To westward palace must the Lester go;
Demeter's daughter finds her ancient roots.
The cloven guide alone the way does know,
To walk the path in thine own enemy's boots.

We three are known and Tiber reached alive,
'Tis only then Apollo starts to jive.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle / The Dark Prophecy

“Meg gawked. “He—he really is a centaur.”
“Well spotted,” I said. “I suppose the lower body of a horse is what gave him away?”
She punched me in the arm.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“He sayeth—"I sighed. "He says the answer will be in English. I hope he means modern Enligh and not the strange Shakespearean lingo he speaks—"
'TIS NOT STRANGE! the arrow objected.
"Because we don't have enough spaces to spell Apollonius beest thy answereth.”
― Rick Riordan, The Burning Maze

“Hey, Larry. How's it going?"
"Terrible!" Larry sounded delighted.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb

“This was how it ended, I thought bitterly. Not fighting threats from the outside, but fighting against the ugliest side of our own history.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb

“Can't fight in person?
We can videoconference
I'll kill you online”
― Rick Riordan, The Tower of Nero

“Can I have baby cows?” Meg asked.
“Well, Meg,” I said, “first you would have to have some mommy cows. You see—”
“Guys,” Percy interrupted. “So, just to recap, you have to be Meg’s servant for…?”
“Some unknown amount of time,” I said. “Probably a year. Possibly more.”
“And during that time —”
“I will undoubtedly face many trials and hardships.”
“Like getting me my cows,” Meg said.
I gritted my teeth.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Wrong body. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, directed by Don Siegel, 1956."
I did not like being compared to a black-and-white horror film, but I'd just been told not to argue with the harpy.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb

“Why?”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle / The Dark Prophecy

“So far so good.
Deep breath. This was for Meg. This was for Jason. This was for everyone who had fought and sacrificed to drag my sorry mortal butt from quest to quest for the last six months, just to get me this chance of redemption.
I threw myself forward and rose into the air; I did a somersault in mid-jump... and I shot straight into Python's head.

....

I MISSED. Oh come on don't act like you're surprised.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tower of Nero