Quotes from The Maze of Bones

“She led the way. Eyeless sockets of the dead seemed to stare at them as they passed.
"These are cool," Dan decided. "Maybe I could-"
"No, Dan," Amy said. "You can't collect human bones."
"Awww.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean - have you ever thought about what this ultimate treasure could be?"
"Something cool." (Dan)
"Oh, that's real helpful. I mean, what could make somebody the most powerful Cahill in history? And why thirty-nine clues?"
Dan shrugged. "Thirty-nine is a sweet number. It's thirteen times three. It's also the sum of five prime numbers in a row - 3,5,7,11,13. And if you add the first three powers of three, 3 to the first, 3 to the second, and s to the third, you get thirty-nine."
Amy stared at him. "How did you know that?"
"What do you mean? It's obvious.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris.
"Yeah, here's a rare grocery list," Dan muttered. "Wow.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“He was dressed just like on TV, with lots of silver chains and bracelets, ripped jeans, and a black muscle shirt (Which was kind of stupid, since he didn't have any muscles).”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“Purple light passed over the paper, but nothing happened.
"Next!" Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to burst in on them any second.
"Whoa!" Dan said.
Amy gripped his arm. "You found it?"
"No, but look! This whole essay - 'To the Royal Academy.' He wrote a whole essay on farts!" Dan grinned with delight. "He's proposing a scientific study on different fart smells. You're right, Amy. This guy was a genius!”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“Dan was thrilled that the second clue had been safely smuggled out of the church in his pants.
"So, really, I saved the day," he decided.
"Wait a minute," Amy said, "I climbed onto the roof in the middle of a thunderstorm."
"Yeah, but the clue was in my pants.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“What's the big deal with Bejamin Frankin, anyway? I mean, so the guy invented electricity or whatever. That was hundreds of years ago."
He didn't invent electricity," Amy said, trying not to sound too annoyed."He discovered that lightning was the same stuff as electicity. He invented lightning rods to protect buildings and experimented with batteries and-"
I do that. Have you ever put one on your tounge?”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“That's great. Except for the fact that it's completely unimportant.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“A Styrofoam egg carton caught his eye. He opened it and found a single silver orb with little blinking red lights. "This is cool, too!" He dropped it into his backpack.
"Dan, no!"
"What? They've got plenty of other stuff, and we need all the help we can get!"
"It could be dangerous."
"I hope so.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“My dear children!"
Nellie whopped him upside the head with her backpack.
"Ow!" Uncle Alistair curled over, cupping his hand over his good eye.
"Nellie!" Amy said.
"Sorry," Nellie muttered. "I thought he was one of the bad guys.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“Amy gritted her teeth. "King Louis XVI even put Franklin's picture on a chamber pot!"
Jonah looked at his dad. "Do we have souvenir chamber pots?"
"No." His dad whipped out his phone. "I'll make the call.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“You can't call a ninja lord dweeb.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“No!" Amy said. "Dan, you're lucky it was only concussive. You could've wiped out the whole Holt family."

"And that would've been bad because...?”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“I want a room decorated with bones!" Dan said. "Where'd they come from?"
"Cemeteries," Amy said. "Back in the 1700s, the cemeteries were getting overcrowded, so they decided to dig up tons of old bodies–all their bones–and move them into the Catacombs. The thing is...look at the dates. See when they started moving bones into the Catacombs?"
Dan squinted at the screen. He didn't see what she was talking about. "Is it my birthday?”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“The whole scene made Dan think of American history tests, which were almost as scary as exploding museums.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“Dan Cahill thought he had the most annoying big sister on the planet. And that was before she set fire to two million dollars.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“It will have to be enough,” she whispered. And with that, Grace Cahill closed her eyes”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“They didn’t trust you,” the man in black said.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“PRUELLA GOODE 1891-1929 I’M DEAD. LET’S HAVE A PARTY. He”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“His eyes glittered, like a starving man looking at a Big Mac.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“Dan felt as if the air had turned to glass. He was afraid to move or he might get cut.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“a dragon, a bear, a wolf, and two snakes entwined around a sword. The crest”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“I would be sad if something happened to you,” Ian purred. “And you so need the money.” Natalie put her hands to her mouth in”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“They think we’re not clever,” Eisenhower said. “They think all we can do is flex our muscles. Well, they’re about to find out we can do more than that!” Eisenhower flexed his muscles.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

“They’d laughed when he flunked out of West Point. They’d laughed”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Maze of Bones

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