Nico Diangelo Quotes

#1. Who wants us?" Bianca demanded. "Because if you think you'll get a ransom, you're wrong. We don't have any family. Nico and I - " Her voice broke a little. "We've got no one but each other.

Rick Riordan

#2. Where are you taking us?" Nico said.
"You should be honored, my boy. You will have the opportunity to join a great army! Just like that silly game you play with cards and dolls."
"They're not dolls! They're figurines! And you can take your great army and -

Rick Riordan

#3. Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.

Texas Bix Bender

#4. So," I (Percy) said glumly. "We're going to get a ride from your brother, huh?"
Artemis's silver eyes gleamed. "Yes, boy. You see, Bianca di Angelo is not the only one with
an annoying brother. It's time for you to meet my irresponsible twin, Apollo.

Rick Riordan

#5. Don't talk to my sister that way. Nico said. His voice quivered, but I was impressed that he had the guts to say anything at all. - Percy

Rick Riordan

#6. Grover and Nico came back from their walk, and Grover helped me fix up my wounded arm.
"It's green!" Nico said with delight.

Rick Riordan

#7. Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. "Does Zeus really have lightning
bolts that do six hundred damage? Does he get extra movement points for - "
"Nico, shut up!" Bianca put her hands to her face. "This is not your stupid Mythomagic game,
okay? There are no gods!

Rick Riordan

#8. Nico knelt and picked it up. He 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.

Rick Riordan

#9. And, Bianca, come with me. I would like to speak with you."
"What about me?" Nico asked.

Rick Riordan

#10. She could sit around listening to her heart breaking, or she could go watch a grown man piss himself.
"How crossed are her eyes?" Dove asked.
Duke gave her the shit-eating grin of victory. "So fucking crossed that she can see herself change her mind.

Debra Anastasia

#11. I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

Condola Rashad

#12. What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Oo!" Nico raised his hand. "What about Dr. Thorn? That was awesome how you shot him
with arrows! Is he dead?

Rick Riordan

#14. I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see the point of it all. I'm 6 ft. and weigh about 18 st. or 19 st., but weighing myself is not something I do with much pleasure.

Maeve Binchy

#15. Sometimes bad things need to be reminded they're not the only ones who can bite.

Eliza Crewe

#16. If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Aldous Huxley

#17. You are a half-blood," Zoe Nightshade said. Her accent was hard to place. It sounded old-fashioned, like she was reading from a really old book. "One of thy parents was mortal. The other was an Olympian."
"An Olympian athlete?"
"No," Zoe said. "One of the gods."
"Cool!" said Nico.

Rick Riordan

#18. I (Percy) set Nico on guard duty with Beckendorf and the Stoll brothers, figuring he'd be safely out of the way.
...
"What's happening?" Nico demanded, trying to climb up next to me.

Rick Riordan

#19. I'm scared," Nico mumbled. He was fiddling with something - a little metal toy soldier of some kind.
"Stop talking!" Dr. Thorn said. "Face me!

Rick Riordan

#20. Bianca di Angelo shivered. "That explains Nico, you remember last summer, those guys
who tried to attack us in the alley in DC?"
"And that bus driver," Nico said. "The one with the ram's horns. I *told* you that was real.

Rick Riordan

#21. I'm determined to read no more books where the blond-haired women carry away all the happiness.

George Eliot

#22. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Ernest Hemingway,

#23. No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

Orison Swett Marden

#24. Nico di Angelo ran up to me with a big grin on his face.
"Percy, this is awesome!" His blue-feathered bronze helmet was falling in his eyes, and his breastplate was about six sizes too big. I wondered if there was any way I'd looked that ridiculous when I'd first arrived.

Rick Riordan

#25. In our culture it is seen as a sign of weakness to actually seek help from someone else. And yet, as Christians, God designed us to need each other - He designed us to lean upon the body of Christ for support, prayer, wisdom, and even practical help.

Leslie Ludy

#26. The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception.

Allan Lokos