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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 " There's also a lot of random stuff about poetry, flowers and lute music, plus kissing and cuddling (lots of this), wearing similar outfits, talking incessantly about the current object of devotion, and generally losing one's faculties. "
― Joanne Harris , The Gospel of Loki (Loki, #1)
4 " 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. "
5 " The dead know everything, but don't give a damn. "
6 " 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. "
7 " Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life. "
8 " 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. "
9 " Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible. "
10 " Loki, that's me. Loki, the Light-Bringer, the misunderstood, the elusive, the handsome and modest hero of this particular tissue of lies. "
11 " They tell you revenge isn't worth it. I say there's nothing finer. "
12 " 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. "
13 " Clever folk aren’t popular, by and large. They arouse suspicion. They don’t fit in. "
14 " 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). "
15 " Most problems can be solved through cake. "
16 " 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. "
17 " There's good news and slightly less good news. "
18 " 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. "
19 " Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place "
20 " Well, that’s history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue, and for the most part written by folk who weren’t even there. "
