Quotes About Sadie Kane

#1. Zia," I said, "that's a goddess. She defeated Bast. What chance do you have?"
Zia held up her staff and the carved lion's head burst into flames - a small red fireball so bright, it lit the entire room. "I am a scribe in the House of LIfe, Sadie Kane. I am trained to fight gods.

Rick Riordan

#2. We speak with one voice," Walt said. "Especially on this matter. No one hurts Sadie Kane.

Rick Riordan

#3. People are going to singlel you out, so you might as well give them something to look at.
-Sadie Kane

Rick Riordan

#4. Sadie Kane here. If you're listening to this, congratulations, you survived doomsday.

Rick Riordan

#5. 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

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

Rick Riordan

#7. Liz cleared her throat. "Isn't there a more polite term we're supposed to use nowadays? Like ... little person, or vertically challenged,or-"
"I'm not going to call myself the god of vertically challenged people," Bes grumbled. "I'm a dwarf!

Rick Riordan

#8. Baboons are very wise animals," Bast said.
"Agh!" Khufu picked his nose, then turned his Technicolor bum our direction. He threw his friends the ball. They began to fight over it, showing one another their fangs and slapping their heads.
"Wise?" I asked.

Rick Riordan

#9. Annabeth nodded. "That's right.Alexander conquered Egypt.After he died, his general Ptolemy took over. He wanted the Egyptians to accept him as their pharaoh, so he mashed the Egyptian gods and the Greek gods together and made up new ones."
"Sounds messy," Sadie said. "I prefer my gods unmashed.

Rick Riordan

#10. 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

#11. What colors are the eyes of Anubis?"

"Brown...Duh.

Rick Riordan

#12. You're Bes, I guess?" I said.
"Yes," he said.
"Your car's a mess," Liz muttered.
"If one more person rhymes," Emma grumbled, "I'll throw up.

Rick Riordan

#13. Two farewell gifts," Sadie muttered, "from two gorgeous guys. I hate my life.

Rick Riordan

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

Rick Riordan

#15. Before I could do anything rash, a familiar voice behind me said, "Hello, Sadie."
The other girls let out a collective gasp. My pulse quickened from "slow walk" to "fifty-meter-dash."
I turned and found that-yes, indeed-the god Anubis had crashed our dance.

Rick Riordan

#16. 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

#17. Why do people care about anything we do? We play in a crappy stadium, in a market that we share with another team, with one of the lowest payrolls in the game. Really, I'm not that interesting.

Billy Beane

#18. 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

#19. She wore a pendent - a glittering D - possibly her initial, or her grade average.

Rick Riordan

#20. A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.

Eda LeShan

#21. Despicable creatures, vultures: without a doubt the most disgusting birds ever. I suppose they served their purpose, but did they have to be so greasy and ugly? Couldn't we have cute fuzzy rabbits that cleaned up roadkill instead?

Rick Riordan

#22. I like shitty strip clubs. They look like what they are. I know what to expect. Unlike Congress, at least we know everybody is for sale.

Dov Davidoff

#23. I wondered if she'd ever written on her notebook: GEB + NUT = TRUE LOVE or MRS GEB.

Rick Riordan

#24. But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.

William Golding

#25. The uneasy expression returned and his mouth twisted scornfully. She waited, certain he was going to say something. Lou'd heard it too many times before: a woman doing a man's work. She'd already decided how she was going to cut him down if he did. Instead, he said nothing.

Danika Stone

#26. I believe you, Sadie."
"Oh really. I'm holding the bloody feather of truth, and you believe me. Well, thanks.

Rick Riordan

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

Rick Riordan

#28. And if I was humming "Happy Birthday" and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life - well, that was nobody's business, was it?

Rick Riordan

#29. I'm sorry I can't do more. But happy birthday, Sadie.
He leaned forward and kissed me on the lips.

Rick Riordan

#30. Sadie, I can't intervene." He turned up his palms in frustration. "I told you when we first met, this isn't an actual physical body."
"Shame," I mumbled.
"What?"
"Nothing. Go on.

Rick Riordan

#31. And I'm comfortable being who I am, so I think a lot of people who take over from a founder worry about how they compare to the founder; I worry about doing the best I can.

Sanjay Kumar

#32. 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

#33. We passed through glowering statues of monsters and gods whom I'd fought in person- the vulture Nekhbet, who'd once possessed my Gran (Long story); the crocodile Sobek, who'd tried to kill my cat (longer story); and the lion goddess Sekhmet, whom we'd once vanished with hot sauce (don't even ask)

Rick Riordan

#34. Make sure you're not expecting cute. This isn't Looking For Alaska.

Hannah Moskowitz

#35. All I can say is I've been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, 'You're very good.'

Marianne Faithfull