Fatal Flaw Quotes

“your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend you would sacrifice the world.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

“But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty, Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend, you would sacrifice the world. In a hero of the prophecy, that is very, very dangerous.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

“If you write about a place, you need to be right about the place!”
― Laurence Bradbury

“The determination that is his biggest strength . . . is also at times his fatal flaw. Like an unthinking machine, he'll just keep shoving, not realizing a step back, a one-night pause, could let some obstacle move out of the way and smooth his path.”
― Lin Pardey, Bull Canyon: A Boatbuilder, a Writer and Other Wildlife

“I don't run when my friends need me”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“The seeds of our own destruction are often sown at birth or in childhood. We are too busy acquiring knowledge and living life to notice their presence. It is for our biographers, if we are of sufficient importance to have any, to highlight them to a post-mortem audience.”
― Stewart Stafford