After the satyrs filed in to dinner, the Hermes cabin brought up the rear. They were always the biggest cabin. Last summer it had been led by Luke, the guy who fought with Thalia and Annabeth on top of Half-Blood Hill. For a while, before Poseidon had claimed me, I'd lodged in the Hermes cabin. Luke had befriended me...and then he'd tried to kill me.

— Rick Riordan

Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

— Rick Riordan

A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.

— Rick Riordan

A good artist must be good at many things.

— Rick Riordan

A half-blood of the eldest dogs...

— Rick Riordan

A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.

— Rick Riordan

Ah, Señores Zhang," Leo said, "you know how you're always saying, 'Leo, you are the only true genius among demigods'?"" I'm pretty sure I never said that.

— Rick Riordan

All aboard for one last trip.

— Rick Riordan

All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book, and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.

— Rick Riordan

All right,’ Nico relented. ‘Maybe a little …’ He managed to take off his aviator jacket and wad it into a pillow before he keeled over and began to snore.

— Rick Riordan