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1 " Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there. "
― , The Gospel of Loki (Loki, #1)
2 " I'm only keeping in touch with you for the sake of the children. Way to look after our son, by the way. I let you have him for the weekend and before I know it he's chained underground, awaiting Last Times and stinking of mead. "
3 " I don’t pretend to know much about love, but that’s how great love comes to an end, not in the flames of passion, but in the silence of regret. "
4 " The dead know everything, but don't give a damn. "
5 " After all, words are what remain when all the deeds have been done. Words can shatter faith; start a war; change the course of history. A story can make your heart beat faster; topple walls; scale mountains - hey, a story can even raise the dead. And that's why the King of Stories ended up being the King of the gods; because writing history and making history are only the breadth of a page apart. "
6 " Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life. "
7 " A demon, if you prefer the term; although to be honest, the difference between god and a demon is really only a matter of perspective. "
8 " Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible. "
9 " Loki, that's me. Loki, the Light-Bringer, the misunderstood, the elusive, the handsome and modest hero of this particular tissue of lies. "
10 " They tell you revenge isn't worth it. I say there's nothing finer. "
11 " Sticks and stones may break my bones’, as they say in the Middle Worlds, but with the right words you can build a world and make yourself the king of it. "
12 " Clever folk aren’t popular, by and large. They arouse suspicion. They don’t fit in. "
13 " There were a few compensations to having corporeal Aspect. Food (jam tarts were my favourites); drink (mostly wine and mead); setting things on fire; sex (although I was still extremely confused by all the taboos surrounding this - no animals, no siblings, no men, no married women, no demons - frankly, it was amazing to me that anyone had sex at all, with so many rules against it). "
14 " Most problems can be solved through cake. "
15 " From this I think we can all conclude that the cow was the primary instigator of everything that followed - war, Tribulation, the End of the Worlds. Lesson One: never trust a rumiant. "
16 " There's good news and slightly less good news. "
17 " And Odin should have known from the first that perfect Order does not bend; it simply stands until it breaks, which is why it rarely survives for any meaningful length of time. "
18 " Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place "
19 " Well, that’s history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue, and for the most part written by folk who weren’t even there. "
20 " All words have power, of course, but names are the most potent of all, which is why the gods had so many. "