Quotes About Carter Kane

#1. For an absurd moment, I wondered if Ammit devoured the hearts of wicked cows, and if he liked the beefy taste.
- Carter Kane

Rick Riordan

#2. I would've hit the water hard, but at the last second I changed into a falcon.

~Carter Kane

Rick Riordan

#3. My name is Carter Kane. I'm fourteen and my home is a suitcase.

Rick Riordan

#4. If I were a flowerpot, I would've checked my hair.

~Carter Kane

Rick Riordan

#5. Somewhere behind me, Zia yelled, "Hippo!" Which I thought was a little late.

~Carter Kane

Rick Riordan

#6. Bast crouched down and began making weird chittering noises. Uh-oh. She was imitating birds. I'd seen enough cats do this when they were stalking. Suddenly my own obituary flashed in my head: Carter Kane, 14, tragically died in Paris wen he was eaten by his sister's cat, Muffin.

Rick Riordan

#7. But not like this: not with
the house just an afterimage, and my mom a spirit, and my dad ... recycled."
"Carter Kane, Chapter 41

Rick Riordan

#8. I'm Carter Kane-part-time high school freshman, part-time magician, full-time worrier about all the Egyptian gods and monsters who are constantly trying to kill me.
Okay, that last part is an exaggeration. Not all the gods want me dead. Just a lot of them.

Rick Riordan

#9. What, at Peace with the Father, and at War with the (His) Children! It cannot be.

John Flavel

#10. Normally my sister, Sadie, or some of our other initiates from Brooklyn House would've come with me. But they were all at the First Nome, in Egypt, for a weeklong training session on controlling cheese demons(yes, they're a real thing; believe me, you don't want to know)

Rick Riordan

#11. I wanted to keep things as normal as possible for the trainees, so I led my usual morning class. I called it Magic Problem-Solving 101. The trainees called it Whatever Works.

Rick Riordan

#12. Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough.
The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse.

Rick Riordan

#13. We crossed one of the subterranean rivers, then wound our wag through the library quarter and the Chamber of Birds.
(Carter says I should tell you why it's called that. It's a cave full of all sorts of birds. Again
duh. [Carter, why are you banging your head against the table?])

Rick Riordan

#14. As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.

Brian O'Driscoll

#15. Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.

Rick Riordan

#16. That sounded about as likely as Apophis and Ra becoming Facebook buddies, but I decided not to say anything.

Rick Riordan

#17. Carter, not to be unkind," I said, "but the last few months you've been seeing messages about Zia everywhere. Two weeks ago, you thought she was sending you a distress call in your mashed potatoes."
"It was a Z! Carved right in the potatoes!

Rick Riordan

#18. Madlen: 'It's a relief to me, Lady Queen, that in your own pain, you take no interest in hurting yourself.'
Bitterblue: 'Why would I? Why should I? It's foolish. I would like to kick the people who do it.'
Madlen: 'That would, perhaps, be redundant, Lady Queen.

Kristin Cashore

#19. Most men are not alert, not paying attention, and not watching out for their families as God commands them to.

James MacDonald

#20. Felix believed that the answer to every problem involved penguins; but it wasn't fair to birds, and I was getting tired of teleporting them back home. Somewhere in Antarctica, a whole flock of Magellanic penguins were undergoing psychotherapy.

Rick Riordan

#21. Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.

P.G. Wodehouse

#22. This is Margaret Brown; boy did she put on a show!" Agnes

Sharon Karaa

#23. Courage what is within is more important than what is without.

Cressida Cowell

#24. Faith wouldn't be faith without having to trust what is unseen. That's difficult sometimes, and it's almost easier to put our trust in what is tangible. But God wants us to put one foot in front of the other and just step out on faith,

Rebecca St. James

#25. I spread my majestic wings. I had really done it! I was a noble falcon, lord of the sky. I launched myself off the sidewalk and flew straight into the fence.

Rick Riordan

#26. My problem is that I like technology, but I always have to ask myself, 'Now wait a minute, will I actually have any use for this?'

Jerry Zucker

#27. Good shoes and a good scent make the perfect day.

Nia Long

#28. The world may need fixing, but it's worth preserving.

Rick Riordan

#29. I bet,' he whispered, 'once upon a time, you made someone really, really happy.

Jess Rothenberg

#30. Armed with my sword and wand, I was all set for a stroll through the swamp to look for a hungry monster. Oh, joy!

Rick Riordan

#31. I was in high school when Will Ferrell was first on 'Saturday Night Live', and I remember thinking, 'Man, that guy is the funniest guy ever.'

Seth Rogen

#32. The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

Rick Riordan

#33. Don't Worry, Be Hapi.

Rick Riordan

#34. Freak is easily spooked. Flesh-eating monsters tend to scare him away. So do fireworks, clowns, and the smell of Sadie's weird British Ribena drink. (Can't blame him on that last one. Sadie grew up in London and developed some pretty strange tastes.

Rick Riordan

#35. And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.

Iain Pears

#36. Come on," I said. "I've got some questions for Thoth. And then I'm going to punch him in the beak.

Rick Riordan

#37. CHEERS, CARTER. At least you have the sense to hand me the microphone for important things.
Honestly, he drones on and on about his plans for the Apocalypse, but he makes no plans at all for the school dance. My brother's priorities are severely skewed.
Sadie Kane

Rick Riordan

#38. It was guarded by a few demons, but most of Set's forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall back down and hit them, but no one says demons are too bright)

Rick Riordan

#39. Throwing down your staff may sound like a sign of surrender, but in Egyptian magic, it's bad news. It usually means, 'Hey, I'm going to summon a big nasty thing to kill you while I stand safely inside my circle and laugh'.

Rick Riordan

#40. Could be worse, I told myself. I could be studying cheese demons.

Rick Riordan

#41. Awkward. Sorry."
"Don't be," Sadie said. "I'll rather enjoy bashing my brother's face in.

Rick Riordan

#42. Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING
HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people
BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people

Erich Fromm

#43. I opened my backpack and checked my supplies: some enchanted rope, my curved ivory wand, a lump of wax for making a magical shabti figurine, my calligraphy set, and a healing potion my friend Jaz had brewed for me a while back. (She knew that I got hurt a lot.)

Rick Riordan

#44. Passion is a sickness. It confounds and makes you do things just to please the other person. Quite different from love. In love you find delight despite the person's flaws.

Cristiane Serruya