Robert Low > Quotes

“I had forgotten that, while Thor hurls his Hammer from storm-clouds, Odin prefers his strike to come out of a calm sky.”
― Robert Low, The White Raven

“By Odin's Hairy Arse!”
― Robert Low, The Whale Road

“We were still on the whale road, in the wind that keened and thrummed the ropes.”
― Robert Low, The Whale Road

“Man without a sword is still a warrior, but one with no shield is just a target.”
― Robert Low, The White Raven

“They offer a wrist-grasp of peace, but that is only to hold you close, by the sword-arm,' he told us, sucking ale off the wet end of his hair. 'The dagger is in the other.”
― Robert Low, The Wolf Sea

“To be without silver is better than to be without honor.”
― Robert Low

“Strange how we had longed for the feel and smell of land when afloat and now longed for the touch of ship and spray now that we were ashore. No”
― Robert Low, The Whale Road

“Truly, when the gods set their faces against you, you are fucked.”
― Robert Low, The Whale Road

“I was a couple of summers past twenty but I felt there were stones under that frozen, dun earth that were younger than me.”
― Robert Low, The White Raven

“Most men think in a straight line,’ he said, barely audible over the town’s noise and the wind. ‘They see only their own actions, like a single thread in the Norns’ loom, knotted only when they thrust their life on others. They see through one set of eyes, hear through one set of ears, all their life.’ He stared at me. ‘To look at things through someone else’s eyes is a rare thing, which cannot be learned. To those with the gift, it is not hard, nor complicated. But, to survive and be more than any others, it is essential. You have that gift, I am thinking.’ I”
― Robert Low, The Whale Road

“God is not mocked!'' the domnall said sternly and Crowbone turned and laughed, hefting his sword on to one shoulder. '' of course he is Priest'' he called out as he went. ''His son was sent to promise an end to wicked folk. Odin promised an end to ice giants. I see no ice giants priest - but the world is full of wicked men.”
― Robert Low

“Hal”
― Robert Low, The Lion Wakes