Rick Riordan Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• Just his luck he was related to this grubby old dude. He hoped all sons of Neptune didn't share the same fate. First, you start carrying a man satchel. Next thing you know, you're running around in a bathrobe and pink bunny slippers, chasing chickens with a weed whacker.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Weed, Fate

  "The Son of Neptune". Book by Rick Riordan, October 4, 2011.

• You're pretty smug, Lord Ares, for a guy who runs from Cupid statues.

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  Running, Guy, Cupid

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

• Looking up in the sky, I saw the stars were brighter now. They made a pattern I had never noticed before- a gleaming constellation that looked a lot like a girls figure- a girl with a bow, running across the sky. "Let the world honor you, my Huntress. Live forever in the stars.

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  Girl, Running, Stars

• The wood nymph instructors left me in the dust. They told me not to worry about it. They'd had centuries of practice running away from lovesick gods. But still, it was a little humiliating to be slower than a tree.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Dust, Practice

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

• Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse.

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  Running, Horse, Smell

• We'd spent maybe ten minutes together, during which time I'd accidentally swung a sword at her, she'd saved my life, and I'd run away chased by a band of supernatural killing machines. You know, your typical chance meeting.

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  Running, Together, Band

• Hey!" I screamed, waving the jacket, running to one side of the monster. "Hey, stupid! Ground beef!

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  Running, Stupid, Monsters

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

• Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.

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  Running, Children, Race

• Leo could run pretty fast when someone was trying to kill him. Sadly, he’d had a lot of practice.

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  Running, Practice, Trying

• He had a note excusing him from PE for the rest of his life because he had some kind of muscular disease in his legs. He walked funny, like every step hurt him, but don't let that fool you. You should've seen him run when it was enchilada day in the cafeteria.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Hurt, Legs

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

• The name says it all. That's where Dad (Hades) tries out his new punishment ideas, but he says the traditional ones still work best: the lava flows, the minefields full of exploding surprises, burning at the stake, running naked through cactus patches... You name it, we've got it here - Nico di Angelo

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Dad, Punishment

• Most of Set’s forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall down and hit them, but no one says demons are bright).

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  Running, Fall, Rocks

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

• What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!” Percy had no intention of doing that.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Coward, Intention

• Zoe readied her arrows. Grover lifted his pipes. Thalia raised her shield and I noticed a tear running down her cheek. Suddenly it occurred to me: this had happened to her before.She had been cornered on Half- Blood Hill. She'd willingly given her life for her friends. But this time she couldn't save us.

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  Running, Blood, Arrows

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

• Run!” Piper said. “We are running!” Jason picked up the speed. “Run better!” Leo shouted.

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  Running, Jason, Speed

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Demigod Diaries (Heroes of Olympus)”, p.103, Penguin UK

• I wondered if I would appear on a temple wall painting someday. A blonde Egyptian girl with purple highlights running sideways through the palm trees, screaming "Yikes!" in hieroglyphics as Neith chased after me. The thought of some poor archaeologist trying to figure that out almost lifted my spirits.

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  Girl, Running, Wall

• Beckendorf, whose legs were now working fine (nothing like being chased by a huge monster to get your body back in order) shook his head and gasped for breath. “You shouldn’t have turned it on! It’s unstable! After a few years, automatons go wild!

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  Running, Order, Years

• Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music.

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  Running, People, Naked

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

• You can do this" I murmured. "You are my brother. I love you. All the embarrassing bits, all the annoying bits, which I imagine is most of you--a thousand Zias might run away from you if they knew the truth. But I won't. I'll still be here.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Brother, Love You

• My stomach churned. The monster had mimicked Thalia perfectly. If I'd heard that voice in the dark, calling for help, I would've run straight toward it.

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  Running, Dark, Voice

• I hoped they couldn't run very fast with those stubby little legs and flippers, but they waddled along pretty well.

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  Running, Legs, Littles

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.147, Penguin UK

• I pressed PLAY and started up Chiron's favorite--the All-Time Greatest Hits of Dean Martin. Suddenly the air was filled with violins and a bunch of guys moaning in Italian. The demon pigeons went nuts. They started flying in circles, running into each other like they wanted to bash their own brains out.

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  Running, Italian, Air

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

• Plus, humor ws a good way to hide the pain. And if that didn't work, there was always Plan B. Run aaway. Over and over.

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  Running, Pain, Way

• Sorghum started to answer, but Wheat flew at him and knocked him down. The karpoi began to fight, dissolving into funnel clouds of grain. Hazel considered making a run for it. Then Wheat re-formed, holding Sorghum in a headlock. "Stop!" he yelled at the others. "Mulitgrain fighting is not allowed!

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Fighting, Clouds

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