Neil Gaiman

American Gods

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  • Jovana Antićhas quoted2 years ago
    All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.
  • Jovana Antićhas quoted2 years ago
    If he walked, he discovered, he did not have to think, and that was just the way he liked it; when he thought, his mind went to places he could not control, places that made him feel uncomfortable. Exhaustion was the best thing.
  • Jovana Antićhas quoted2 years ago
    There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.
  • Katia Alvarezhas quoted5 years ago
    Thomas Bailey Aldrich, “The Unguarded Gates,” 1882
  • Алёна Минаеваhas quoted5 years ago
    Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good
  • Fatima Mammadovahas quoted6 years ago
    None of this can actually be happening. If it makes you more comfortable, you could simply think of it as metaphor. Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you—even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.

    Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from which to view the world
  • Jovana Antićhas quoted2 years ago
    “You know,” he said. “I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s what we do.”
  • Jovana Antićhas quoted2 years ago
    The buffalo voice said, You are doing just fine.

    Shadow thought, Damn right. I came back from the dead this morning. After that, everything else should be a piece of cake.
  • Jovana Antićhas quoted2 years ago
    People believe, thought Shadow. It’s what people do. They believe. And then they will not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjurations. People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen.
  • Jovana Antićhas quoted2 years ago
    “Jesus. Low Key Lyesmith,” said Shadow, and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. “Loki,” he said. “Loki Lie-Smith.”

    “You’re slow,” said Loki, “but you get there in the end.” And his lips twisted into a scarred smile and embers danced in the shadows of his eyes.

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