Life Quotes Quote by Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

““You will suffer, son of Hades!’”

““Hades allowed himself the faintest smile, but there was nothing cruel in his eyes.”

“Percy pulled Annabeth close and kissed her...long enough for it to get really awkward for Piper, though she said nothing. She thought about the old rule of Aphrodite's cabin: that to be recognized as a daughter of the love goddess, you had to break someone's heart. Piper had long ago decided to change that rule. Percy and Annabeth were a perfect example of why. You should have to make someone`s heart whole; that was a much better test.”

“No,’ Nico said. ‘Getting a second life is one thing. Making it a better life, that’s the trick.’ As soon as he said it, Nico realized he could’ve been talking about himself. He decided not to bring that up.”

“Then she did something so unexpected Nico would later think he dreamed it. She walked up to Nico, who was standing to one side in the shadows, as usual. She grabbed his hand and pulled him gently into the firelight. ‘We had one home,’ she said. ‘Now we have two.’ She gave Nico a big hug and the crowd roared with approval. For once, Nico didn’t feel like pulling away. He buried his face in Reyna’s shoulder and blinked the tears out of his eyes.”

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”

“The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.”

“He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”

“I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.”

“Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.”