The Kane Chronicles Quotes

#1. Why are we so concerned about whether other animals are like human beings or not? Because we are worried about whether we should consider them kinfolk of ours, relatives. If they are relatives of ours, then we should treat them with more respect than if they are not.

Sydney M. Lamb

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.

Seneca The Younger

#5. 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

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

Rick Riordan

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

Rick Riordan

#8. 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

#9. So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked.
Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has other problems. Other gods. It's best we stay separate.

Rick Riordan

#10. You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#11. Why worship a flag or a God, when we can worship that which is best in us: our will to be great.

Andrew Ryan

#12. The fans, I loved them. My mother would be in the gallery, I would look right at my mother and not remember.

Arnold Palmer

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

Rick Riordan

#14. Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

Richard Cecil

#15. My name is Zia Rashid.

Rick Riordan

#16. Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals themselves despicable.

Anton Chekhov

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

Rick Riordan

#18. You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

Jennifer O'Neill

#19. I can't do what my mother did, which is tell me every single day of my life about her labor and how long it was and how it was 36 hours of hell .

Kristen Stewart

#20. 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

#21. To love someone, why do you need society's approval and permission?

Ai Yazawa

#22. 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