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#1

“The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.”
― Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire

tags: choices

#2

“Sometimes, it takes us a while to appreciate something new, something that might change us for the better.”
― Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire

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#3

“Gods tend to be selfish. Even when they're helpful, they always have their own motives. That's why you have to be careful about trusting them.”
― Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire

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#4

“Everything happens for a reason, Sadie, even bad things.”
― Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire

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#5

“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

tags: love

5607 likes

#6

“But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

tags: inspirational, kind, kindness, powerful, sword

1275 likes

#7

“Genius does not excuse evil.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

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#8

“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

tags: inspirational, karma, life

61 likes

#9

“Each person's grief has its own life span; it needs to follow its own path.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb

tags: grief, grief-and-healing

44 likes

#10

“Never underestimate the power of thousands of human minds all believing the same thing. They can remake reality. Sometimes for the better, sometimes not." - Apollo”
― Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb

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#11

“I decided I couldn’t live in a world where cruelty like that went unchallenged.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tyrant's Tomb

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#12

“You must forge your own path for it to mean anything.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

tags: jason-grace, leo-valdez, percy-jackson, piper-mclean, the-lost-hero

1020 likes

#13

“Life is only precious because it ends, kid.”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

tags: mortality

1808 likes

#14

“We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

tags: annabeth-chase, emotion, heartbreak, love, percy-jackson

3314 likes

#15

“Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

tags: greek-mythology, heroes-of-olympus, piper-mclean, rick-riordan, the-mark-of-athena

627 likes

#16

“But she wondered why beautiful things had to be wrapped up with evil history. Or was it the other way around? Maybe the evil history made it necessary to build beautiful things, to mask the darker aspects.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

tags: annabeth-chase

180 likes

#17

“True success requires sacrifice.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

131 likes

#18

“Swords can’t solve every problem.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

tags: annabeth-chase, fantasy, mythology, rick-riordan, the-heroes-of-olympus, the-mark-of-athena

101 likes

#19

“No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

744 likes

#20

“Some pain shouldn't be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with, even embraced.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

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#21

“You can't choose your parentage. But you can choose your legacy.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

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#22

“I don’t define myself by the boys who may or may not like me”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

tags: blood-of-olympus, reyna-ramírez-arellano, rick-riordan

356 likes

#23

“Our desires reveal us. They show us for who we really are.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

276 likes

#24

“Decapitation is not a healthy lifestyle choice.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

255 likes

#25

“We only fail when we stop trying.”
― Rick Riordan, The Dark Prophecy

tags: apollo

110 likes

#26

“It's not how long you live that matters. It's what you live for.”
― Rick Riordan, The Dark Prophecy

116 likes

#27

“I remember something Marcus Aurelius used to tell his son, a quote that later became famous in his Meditations book: Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.”
― Rick Riordan, The Dark Prophecy

74 likes

#28

“Power makes good people uneasy rather than joyful or boastful. That’s why good people so rarely rise to power.”
― Rick Riordan, The Burning Maze

tags: truth-of-the-world

99 likes

#29

“Pain is an interesting thing. You think you have reached your limit and you can’t possibly feel more tortured. Then you discover there is still another level of agony. And another level after that.”
― Rick Riordan, The Burning Maze

tags: pain

132 likes

#30

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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