Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know there was another world out there, one he could walk to anytime he wanted."
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"He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know there was another world out there, one he could walk to anytime he wanted."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"He knew everything about big Mike Ainsel in this moment, and he liked Mike Ainsel. Mike Ainsel had none of the problems that Shadow had. Ainsel had never been married. Mike Ainsel had never been interrogated on a freight train by Mr. Wood an Mr. Stone. Televisions did not speak to Mike Ainsel (You want to see Lucy's tits? asked a voice in his head)."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"I need to know how you did it it. I did it, said Sweeney, with the air of one confiding a huge secret, witch panache and style. That's how I did it.(Shadow & Mad Sweeney)"
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"Have you thought about what it means to be a god" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme (...)"."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"Have you thought about what it means to be a god" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"So, yeah, my people figured that maybe there's something at the back of it all, a creator, a great spirit, and so we say thank you to it, because it's always good to say thank you. But we never built churches. We didn't need to. The land was the church. The land was the religion. The land was older and wiser than the people who walked on it."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"Will you go back" asked the Lord of the Gallows. "To America"Nothing to go back for," said Shadow, and as he said it he knew it was a lie."Things wait for you there," said the old man. "But they will wait until you return."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"Liberty is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress ofcorpses."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"Liberty," boomed Wednesday, as they walked to the car, "is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"He sat down on a grassy bank and looked at the city that surrounded him, and thought, one day he would have to go home. And one day he would have to make a home to go back to. He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"And I know an eighteenth charm, and that charm is the greatest of all, and that charm I can tell no man, for a secret that no one knows but you is the most powerful secret there can ever be."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"My mom used to say, βLife isnβt fair,ββ said Shadow.βOf course she did,β said Wednesday. βItβs one of those things that moms say, right up there with βIf all your friends jumped off a cliff would you do it too?βββYou stiffed that girl for ten bucks, I slipped her ten bucks,β said Shadow, doggedly. βIt was the right thing to do.βSomeone announced that their plane was boarding. Wednesday stood up. βMay your choices always be so clear,β he said."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"We all have so many functions, so many ways of existing. In my own vision of myself, I am a scholar who lives quietly, and pens his little tales, and dreams about a past that may or may not have existed. And that is true, as far as it goes. But I am also, in one of my capacities, like so many of the people you have chosen to associate with, a psychopomp. I escort the living to the world of the dead."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"Shadow was a couple of a hundred yards away from his motel, and he walked there, breathing the cold air, past red and yellow and blue lights advertising every kind of fast food a man could imagine, as long as it was a hamburger."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"You know,β he said. βI think I would rather be a man than a god. We donβt need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. Itβs what we do.β There was silence, in the high place."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"Believe," said the rumbling voice. "If you are to survive, you must believe."Believe what" asked Shadow. "What should I believe"He stared at Shadow, the buffalo man, and he drew himself up huge, and his eyes filled with fire. He opened his spit-flecked buffalo mouth and it was red inside with the flames that burned inside him, under the earth."Everything," roared the buffalo man."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
"This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power."
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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