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41 " She snorted. “Sounds like the beginning of a joke, doesn’t it? An atheist and a Muslim walk into a pagan afterlife. "
― Rick Riordan , The Hammer of Thor (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #2)
42 " I will never understand these bethroted teenagers nowadays. "
43 " I'd been chased by Valkyries. I'd been chased by elves with firearms. I'd been chased by dwarves with a tank. Now, lucky me, I got to be chased by giants with giant bowling balls. "
44 " Amir took a deep breath. To his credit, he didn't collapse, curl into a ball, or cry, all of which would have been perfectly acceptable responses to finding out there were squeaky-voiced beings in the sky that would invite you up their rainbow. "
45 " I Need to Learn Many, Many More Cusswords in Sign Language "
46 " Did he just call his hammer Mee-Mee? - Magnus "
47 " The place went on forever-like Costco or a chemistry lecture. "
48 " I LOVE IT when gods offer to pay for a dinner that’s already free. Almost as much as I love assault squads that show up after the assault. "
49 " No offense, kid, but I have a strong desire to murder your uncle with extreme prejudice.” “No offense taken,” I said. “I’m tempted to help you. "
50 " In Case of Demonic Possession, Please Follow Illuminated Signs to the Nearest Exit "
51 " Hello, Paranoia, My Old Friend "
52 " Where were we?” he said. “Ah, yes, cake and sarcasm. "
53 " The older you are, the harder it is to accept that the world might not be the way you thought it was. "
54 " The next millisecond demonstrated how much faster I can think than react. First I thought Blitzen had spotted an actual duck. Blitzen likes ducks. Then I realized he was telling me to get down, which is hard to do when you're the last in a line of three people on horseback. "
55 " Nothing beats camping out in a dreary Jotunheim forest while your friend stitches runes on a giant bowling bag! "
56 " It was the nicest cop car I’d ever been in, and I’d been in quite a few. The black leather interior smelled of vanilla. The Plexiglas divider was squeaky clean. The bench seat had a massage feature so I could relax after a hard day of loitering. Obviously, they served only the finest criminals here in Alfheim. "
57 " I remembered how guest rights worked from our last time in Jotunheim. If you made it inside the house and claimed you were a guest, supposedly the host couldn't kill you. Of course, when we'd tried that before, we ended slaughtering an entire giant family after they attempted to squash us like bugs, but it had all been done with the utmost courtesy. "
58 " one thing I’d learned from being a son of Frey—I couldn’t always fight my friends’ battles. The best I could do was be there to heal their injuries. "
59 " Stop that, I told my brain.Also, the wedding is tomorrow, said my brain.Get out of my head.My brain refused to get out of my head. Inconsiderate brain. "