Rick Riordan Life Quotations

I’m the god of funerals. I know every death custom in the world—how to die properly, how to prepare the body and soul for the afterlife. I live for death.” “You must be fun at parties,” I said.

Most people call it The Book of the Dead,” he told me. “Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they could have directions through the Duat to the Land of the Dead. It’s like an Idiot’s Guide to the Afterlife.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

The real world is where the monsters are.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Life is only precious because it ends, kid.

Hope does not leave without being given permission.

Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

And if someone doesn’t believe in any afterlife?” I asked. Walt gave me a sad look. “Then that’s what they experience.