Adventure Quote by Rick Riordan

“Now, she realized that the hardest test for a child of Athena wasn't leading a quest or facing death in combat. It was making the strategic decision to step back, to let someone else take the brunt of danger - especially if that person was your friend. She had to face the fact that she could not…” quote by Rick Riordan — Download Open image

““Now, she realized that the hardest test for a child of Athena wasn't leading a quest or facing death in combat. It was making the strategic decision to step back, to let someone else take the brunt of danger - especially if that person was your friend. She had to face the fact that she could not protect everyone she loved.””

Rick Riordan

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings)

More by Rick Riordan

“It made sense, and I felt kind of stupid. I’d been hanging around dryads”

Rick Riordan

Image

“That awkward moment when you jump out a window because your friend jumped out a window, then you remember that your other friend can…

Rick Riordan

Image

Oh, dear Hazel.” Aphrodite folded her fan. “Such optimism, yet you have heartrending days ahead of you. Of course war is coming. Love and…

Rick Riordan

Image

Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go…

Rick Riordan

Image

“He started toward the entrance. Seriously, how could he not? He stopped when he noticed the girl. She was kneeling in her vegetable garden,…

Rick Riordan

Image

Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy "Percy... Chiron's collection!

Rick Riordan

Image

“When you take someone’s hand and lead them to Valhalla, you get a glimpse into their soul.” “Did that happen when you took me?”…

Rick Riordan

Image

“he didn’t look as good as Piper had last night after she’d suddenly been transformed.”

Rick Riordan

Image

There’s my baby!” I cried, quite carried away. “There’s my Poochiekins!” Ammit ran at me and leaped into my arms, nuzzling me with his…

Rick Riordan

Image

“Leo plunked the cheese wheel in front of me. "Cut me a wedge of this, my good ma. Chop-chop!" I scowled at him. "Don't…

Rick Riordan

Image

It's all still about having a good story. You have to have a good story as your anchor, as your main focus. So for…

Rick Riordan

Image

I disobeyed Ra's wishes, and so he ordered my onw father, Shu-" "Hang on," I said. "Shoe?" "S-h-u," she said. "The god of the…

Rick Riordan

Image

Explore all 2,995 Rick Riordan quotes

More Adventure quotes

I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier.

Russell Howard

Image

I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody…

Ben Eine

Image

I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests…

Richard Branson

Image

I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth…

Beryl Markham

Image

I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening…

Rae Armantrout

Image

What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film.

Jessica Yu

Image

“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a…

Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless

Image

A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood