American Gods Quotes
Absurdism, Fantasy books, American novels
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“The quickest way is sometimes the longest.”
“It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.”
“If Hell is other people, thought Shadow, then Purgatory is airports.”
“A precise voice, fussy and exact, was speaking to him, in his dream, but he could see no one.”
“Wikipedia: American Gods”
“"All revelations are personal." she said. "That’s why all revelations are suspect."”
“He began to walk through the hall. The carved eyes of those statues that had eyes seemed to follow his every step.”
“"So what are you? A two-bit con artist?"
Wednesday nodded. "Yes," he said. "I suppose I am. Among other things."”
“"Keep safe," she told him. "I would not like to hear that you were gone for good."
"It would distress me equally, my dear."”
“"I'm alive" said Shadow."I'm not dead. Remember?"
"You're not dead" Laura said "But I'm not sure you're alive, either. Not really."”
“All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”
“It's easier to kill people, when you're dead yourself … I mean, it's not such a big deal. You're not so prejudiced anymore.”
“There are always places to go further down. Life goes on. And second, if you just hang in there, someday they’re going to have to let you out.”
“I got to tell you, you don’t look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him.”
“The brief winter days leading up to Christmas were like moments of light between the winter darknesses, and they fled fast in the house of the dead.”
“What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore, it knows it's not fooling a soul.”
“"Most honored fantasy book list": American Gods ranks at the top”
“"Like I said, don't piss off those bitches in the airports," said Johnnie Larch, in the back of his mind, "or they'll haul your sorry ass back here before you can spit"”
“Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”