Rick Riordan Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

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  Love, Cute, Son

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.1196, Penguin UK

• I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you're going to save the world, I'm the best person to keep you from messing up.

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  Long, Waiting, Brain

• What are you talking about?" Narcissus demanded. "I am amazing. Everyone knows this." "Amazing at pure suck," Leo said. "If I was as suck as you, I'd drown myself. Oh wait, you already did that.

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  Talking, Waiting, Said

• Wait just a minute," Ares growled. He pointed at Thalia and me. "These two are dangerous. It'd be much safer, while we've got them here—" "Ares," Poseidon interrupted, "they are worthy heroes. We will not blast my son to bits." "Nor my daughter," Zeus grumbled. "She has done well.

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  Daughter, Hero, Son

• It's first owner...well, things didn't turn out too well for her. Her name was Helena.' Piper let that sink in. "Wait, you mean the Helena? Helena of Troy?' Annabeth nodded. "And it's just sitting in your toolshed?

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  Mean, Names, Waiting

• But Annabeth just smiled and put us in jail. As she was heading back to the front line, she turned and winked. "See you at the fireworks?" She didn't even wait for my answer before darting off into the woods. I looked at Beckendorf. "Did she just...ask me out?" He shrugged, completely disgusted. "Who knows with girls? Give me a haywire dragon, any day." So we sat together and waited while the girls won the game.

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  Girl, Jail, Dragons

• He [Nico] regarded Jason, as if waiting for an attack. 'If the others found out-' 'If the others found out,' Jason said, 'You'd have that many more people to back you up, and to unleash the fury of the gods on anybody who gives you trouble.

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  Giving, People, Waiting

• With my sister perched on my arm, I walked to the elevator. A business man with a rolling suitcase was waiting by the doors. His eyes widened as he saw me. I must’ve looked pretty strange—a tall black kid in dirty, ragged Egyptian clothes, with a weird box tucked under one arm and a bird of prey perched on the other. “How’s it going?” I said. “I’ll take the stairs.” He hurried off.

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  Dirty, Kids, Eye

• You’re probably thinking: Wait, you just charged in without a plan? But Annabeth and I had been fighting together for years. We knew each other’s abilities. We could anticipate each other’s moves. I might have felt awkward and nervous about being her boyfriend, but fighting with her? That came naturally. Hmm…that sounded wrong. Oh, well.

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  Moving, Fighting, Thinking

• I could hear hopefulness in her voice, but also doubt. She was waiting for me to admit the obvious: I’d forgotten. I was toast. I was boyfriend roadkill.

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  Voice, Waiting, Doubt

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Demigod Diaries (Heroes of Olympus)”, p.54, Penguin UK

• I left him in his wheelchair, staring sadly into the fireplace. I wondered how many times he’d sat here, waiting for heroes that never came back.

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  Hero, Waiting, Fireplaces

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.168, Penguin UK

• Don't decide yet," Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

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  Decision, Waiting, Good Times

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.160, Penguin UK

• Yeah, my bad," Leo muttered. "I should've crashed on one of the other islands. Oh, wait-there aren't any!" She [Calypso] snarled and kept walking along the edge of the water.

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  Islands, Water, Waiting

• Someday, you will make an excellent guardian ba.” “Thanks,” I muttered. “Can’t wait to be poultry forever.

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  Waiting, Forever, Poultry

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series”, p.262, Penguin UK

• I could hear hopefulness in her voice, but also doubt. She was waiting for me to admit the obvious: I'd forgotten. I was toast. I was boyfriend roadkill. Just because I forgot, you shouldn't take that as a sign I didn't care about Annabeth. Seriously, the last month with her had been awesome. I was the luckiest demigod ever. But a special dinner... when had I mentioned that? Maybe I'd said it after Annabeth kissed me, which had sort of sent me into a fog. Maybe a Greek gos had disguised himself as me as and made her that promise as a prank. Or maybe I was just a rotten boyfriend.

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  Fog, Voice, Waiting

• sorry,no thanks,if i was going to die it could wait until tomorrow morning.

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  Morning, Sorry, Waiting

• But if she'd realized that nine desiccated zombie nymphs would be waiting for her, she never would have come down here.

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  Nymphs, Waiting, Zombie

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