Rick Riordan Machines Quotations

Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused. - Hephaestus

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

Wha-what?" Her eyes fluttered open. "Nothing," I shouted. "We're being followed by a slaying machine. Go back to sleep.

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

How do we beat her? I asked. You pretty much don’t, Horus said. She is the incarnation of the sun’s wrath. Back in the day when Ra was active, she would have been much more impressive, but still. .She’s unstoppable. A born killer. A slaying machine— “Okay, I get it!” I yelled.

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.