Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2) QUOTES

101 " All through the workday something was nagging at the back of his head, and he didn’t know what it was. He misplaced things. He forgot things. At one point, he started singing at his desk, not because he was happy, but because he forgot not to. "

― Neil Gaiman , Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2)

103 " Esta historia comienza, como casi todas las cosas, con una canción.
Al principio sólo existían las palabras, y llegaron acompañadas de una melodía. Así es como se creó el mundo, como la nada fue dividida, como la tierra y el firmamento y los sueños, los dioses menores y los animales, todos ellos, tomaron forma corpórea.
Fueron cantados.
Los grandes animales cobraron vida también al ser cantados, una vez que el Cantante hubo creado los planetas, los montes, los árboles, los océanos y los animales más pequeños. Fueron cantados los abismos en los confines del mundo, y los paraísos, y también las tinieblas.
Las canciones permanecen. Perduran. Una canción puede convertir en bufón a un emperador o derrocar dinastías. Seguirá viva mucho tiempo después de que los hechos que narra y sus protagonistas se hayan transformado en polvo y sueños, condenados al olvido. Tal es el poder de una canción. "

― Neil Gaiman , Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2)

105 " She was far from gruntled. "

― Neil Gaiman , Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2)

107 " They still need to keep their bellies full, but now they’re trying to figure out how to do it without working—and that’s the point where people start using their heads. Some people think the first tools were weapons, but that’s all upside down. First of all, people figure out the tools. It’s the crutch before the club, every time. Because now people are telling Anansi stories, and they’re starting to think about how to get kissed, how to get something for nothing by being smarter or funnier. That’s when they start to make the world.” “It’s just a folk story,” she said. “People made up the stories in the first place.” “Does that change things?” asked the old man. “Maybe Anansi’s just some guy from a story, made up back in Africa in the dawn days of the world by some boy with blackfly on his leg, pushing his crutch in the dirt, making up some goofy story about a man made of tar. Does that change anything? People respond to the stories. They tell them themselves. The stories spread, and as people tell them, the stories change the tellers. Because now the folk who never had any thought in their head but how to run from lions and keep far enough away from rivers that the crocodiles don’t get an easy meal, now they’re starting to dream about a whole new place to live. The world may be the same, but the wallpaper’s changed. Yes? People still have the same story, the one where they get born and they do stuff and they die, but now the story means something different to what it meant before. "

― Neil Gaiman , Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2)

109 " Charlie pushed his fedora back onto his head. Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a spring in your stride as if you're only a step away from dancing. "

― Neil Gaiman , Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2)

111 " Where do you get your ideas?” And I realized I owed them an answer. They weren’t old enough to know any better. And it’s a perfectly reasonable question, if you aren’t asked it weekly. This is what I told them: You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it. You get ideas when you ask yourself simple questions. The most important of the questions is just,What if…? "

― Neil Gaiman , Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2)

113 " He went along the corridor to the tiny spare room at the back of the house and looked down into the gardens below. The dawn chorus had begun, and he could see blackbirds, and small hedge-hopping sparrows, a single spotted-breasted thrush in the boughs of a nearby tree. Fat Charlie thought that a world in which birds sang in the morning was a normal world, a sensible world, a world he didn’t mind being a part of. "

― Neil Gaiman , Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2)

115 " Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful of monkeys. It had done nothing he had considered particularly entertaining, apart from emit interesting noises, and eventually, once the noises had stopped and the monkeys were no longer doing anything at all—except possibly on an organic level—had needed to be disposed of in the dead of night. "

― Neil Gaiman , Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2)

117 " You’re no help,” he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could "

― Neil Gaiman , Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2)

119 " Daisy looked up at him with the kind of expression that Jesus might have given someone who had just explained that he was probably allergic to bread and fishes, so could He possibly do him a quick chicken salad: there was pity in that expression, along with almost infinite compassion. She "

― Neil Gaiman , Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2)