Rick Riordan Break Quotations

Green grass breaks through snow, Artemis pleads for my help, I am so cool.

I wondered if Olympus had gone to a commercial break, or if our ratings had been any good.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

Annabeth sat up and glared at her ankle. "You HAD to break," she scolded it. The ankle did not reply.

I figure the world is basically a machine. I don't know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or the capital-G god or whatever. But it chugs along the way it's supposed to most of the time. Sure, little pieces break off and stuff goes haywire once in a while, but mostly... things happen for a reason.