Rick Riordan Quotes

I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it's just accepted.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

Anyone will say anything under torture.

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

Anyone and everyone eventually confesses under torture.

Very cruel punishments are inflicted in some of the convict camps, such as scores of lashes on the bare back, for slight offences. Women also are brutally flogged.

Tie the wretch who utters these calumnies to a stake … brand him on the forehead with a hot iron, and perform upon him a surgical operation with a pair of tailor’s shears.

They promptly tore his fingernails out and he started telling things.

Wherever a colored person was to be found, he or she was whipped till the blood formed pools at their feet and were threatened with death if they did not cease screaming in pain.

Cruelty isn't softened by tears; it feeds on them.

I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.

Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete silence - their speech centres are destroyed - except for the crackle of sparks and the popping of singed flesh as they apply electrodes up and down the spine. White smoke of burning flesh hangs in the motionless air. A group of children have tied an idiot to a post with barbed wire and built a fire between his legs and stand watching with bestial curiosity as the flames lick his thighs. His flesh jerks in the fire with insect agony.

Unlike the vast majority of people, I've been locked in a box like an animal and I've also been on the receiving end of bloody thrashings, so I feel uniquely qualified to judge which is worse.

Beat him until there’s no skin left on his back. If he passes out, wake him and beat him again. (Father) Love you, too, Father. (Acheron)

A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!

He reminded me of someone who put your fingers in the door and smiled and talked to you while he smashed them.

A hot stake is better than a cold chop.

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.

He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.

There were two Avoxes with me in prison. Darius and Lavinia, but the guards mostly called them the redheads. They'd been our servants in the Training Center, so they arrested them, too. I watched them being tortured to death. She was lucky. They used too much voltage and her heart stopped right off. It took days to finish him off. Beating, cutting off parts. They kept asking him questions, but he couldn't speak, he just made these horrible animals sounds. They didn't want information, you know? They wanted me to see it.

Torture can be a two edged sword.

Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.