Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city."
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"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he held onto nothing, and he held onto dreams."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"you do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"I'll show you an imaginative re-creation, my fist imaginatively re-creating your fucken face for starters."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"He'd been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobody expected him to be able to do anything more than move a sofa into the next room on his own."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"It was a survival thing: he didn't answer back, didn't say anything about job security for prison guards, debate the nature of repentance, rehabilitation, or rates of recidivism. He didn't say anything funny or clever, and, to be on the safe side, when he was talking to a prison official, whenever possible, he didn't say anything at all. Speak when you're spoken to. Do your own time. Get out. Go home. ... Rebuild a life."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"Listen, gods die when they are forgotten. People too. But the land's still here. The good places, and the bad. The land isn't going anywhere. And neither am I."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"Gods are great," said Atsula, slowly, as if she were comprehending a great secret. "But the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return..."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"I'm the idiot box. I'm the TV. I'm the all-seeing eye and the world of the cathode ray. I'm the boob tube. I'm the little shrine the family gathers to adore.' 'You're the television? Or someone in the television' 'The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice' asked Shadow.'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.' She raised two fingers, blew imaginary gunsmoke from the tips. Then she winked, a big old I Love Lucy wink.'You're a God' said Shadow. Lucy smirked, and took a ladylike puff of her cigarette. 'You could say that,' she said."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"Gods are great," said Atsula, slowly, as if she were imparting a great secret. "But the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return..."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?"
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe. And then they will not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjurations. People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck... I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"What my business partner says is, if the Lord gives you a talent or a skill, you have the obligation to use it as best as you can. Donβt you agree?"
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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