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Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8) QUOTES

Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8) QUOTES

1 " But in doing so---moving forward...---he's still dealing with the past. It's always strung out behind us, innit, attached to our arses like a roll of toilet paper we trail out of the bathroom, pointing the way to the giant shite we just took. It doesn't matter if we flushed it down; Everyone still knows what we did there. So its fine to say it's all done and you have no connection with the past, that you're a new person every second, but silly in my view to pretend that person isn't made of the old one. "

― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)

2 " I know that when ye think o’ love you’re supposed to think o’ kissy faces and scented soap and hummin’ happy songs together, but there’s another vital part to it that people rarely admit to themselves: We want somebody to rescue us from other people. From talking to them, I mean, or from the burden of giving a damn about what they say. We don’t want to be polite and stifle our farts, now, do we? We want to let ’em rip and we want to be with someone who won’t care if we do, who will love us regardless and fart right back besides. "

― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)

3 " Since I’ve become a Druid, I’ve seen some pretty weird shit, Atticus,” Granuaile said, “but Beardy Baggins there squaring off against Squid Head McGee in the snow might be the weirdest. "

― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)

4 " What I should be doing was the same thing everyone should be doing: enjoying the blessings I have while I have them, instead of worrying that one day they will be gone. "

― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)

5 " You can’t put your fist through a man’s wood and expect him to forgive and forget. "

― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)

6 " Gods blast it, I was asking ye where you shite in the city, not where I should do it! "

― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)

7 " Nature doesn’t ask your permission; it doesn’t care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You’re obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well. "

― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)

8 " People still need to know that ye would fix everything if ye could. "

― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)

9 " We want somebody to rescue us from other people. From talking to them, I mean, or from the burden of giving a damn about what they say. We don’t want to be polite and stifle our farts, now, do we? We want to let ’em rip and we want to be with someone who won’t care if we do, who will love us regardless and fart right back besides. "

― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)

10 " Some o’ the words in this book might not be immediately pronounceable for some readers because they have foreign origins. Heck, I needed help myself. But I like learning new words and how to say them, so I’m providing a wee guide here for a few names and such in case you’re of a like mind and want to know how to say them out loud. No one is going to confiscate your cake if you say them wrong, but you might score a piece of cake if you say them right. You know what? You should just have a piece of cake anyway. You deserve cake. "

― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)

11 " Pain fades, but freedom is an enduring joy. "

― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)

12 " But in doing so—moving forward, in Greta’s mind—he’s still dealing with the past. It’s always strung out behind us, innit, attached to our arses like a roll of toilet paper we trail out of the bathroom, pointing the way to the giant shite we just took. It doesn’t matter if we flushed it down: Everyone still knows what we did there. So it’s fine to say it’s all done and you have no connection with the past, that you’re a new person every second, but silly in my view to pretend that person isn’t made of the old one. "

― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)

13 " Sometimes you simply need to say thank you to someone, to be grateful for the road behind and the road ahead and the place you’re at, and gods are very good at accepting those feelings. And for all that humanity asks them for intercession with this crisis or that, it’s important when things go well to be thankful or at least conscious of your good fortune, whether the gods deserve the gratitude or not. We strive so much to achieve these small slivers of balance that it would be a shame not to look around and appreciate them when they happen. "

― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)

14 " Defend the honor of your arse-munching couch. "

― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)

15 " but underneath that lurked horrors, like a syphilitic dick hidden under a blanket. "

― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)

16 " Trees are always the cure for your modern bollocks. "

― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)

17 " But sometimes we do things that make no sense except in some arcane calculus hidden in our emotions. "

― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)

18 " I know that when ye think o’ love you’re supposed to think o’ kissy faces and scented soap and hummin’ happy songs together, but there’s another vital part to it that people rarely admit to themselves: We want somebody to rescue us from other people. From talking to them, I mean, or from the burden of giving a damn about what they say. "

― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)

19 " They were lounging, in fact, in an almost ostentatious manner, as if to say to passersby like myself, “Look uponst my exquisite lounging, foolish mortal, and mourn that you will never lounge with such cosmopolitan savoir faire. "

― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)

20 " My God, Atticus, you look like you had an orgy with egg yolks and orange juice.” “We might need a loofah,” I admitted. “Dare I ask what happened?” “An Olympian exploded on us and it was yucky. "

― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)