Gregory Amato > Quotes

“The road to Asgard is paved with head injuries.”
― Gregory Amato, Burden to Bear

“The gods do not help you forget things. That is what alcohol is for, and why it is so much more important than faith.”
― Gregory Amato

“Or less charitably, you could call the Rus a bunch of miserable Swedes who went too far east and got even more miserable than they were before.”
― Gregory Amato, Burden to Bear

“We call that the story of the Volsungs, the most famous and most stupid family in the history of Midgard”
― Gregory Amato, Burden to Bear

“She was beautiful but unattainable, which only increased my attraction to her.”
― Gregory Amato, Burden to Bear

“Drinking is never early for a wizard, nor is it late. A wizard drinks precisely when he means to.”
― Gregory Amato, Burden to Bear

“What if an enterprising (or perhaps just ill-natured) fisherman found part of the serpent's body a few thousand miles away from his head and decided to cut it open and take a peek inside? It would take hours or days for Jormungand to respond to such and insult.”
― Gregory Amato, Burden to Bear

“Perhaps she was cat-shirted, and from there derived her rage at all living things, as cats hate them all.”
― Gregory Amato, Burden to Bear

“In retrospect, maybe I should have given thanks that I was still wearing pants in this dream. It could have easily happened without them.”
― Gregory Amato, Rune to Ruin

“I wanted to see her kill him. Not because it was still difficult to breathe. Because he had ignored the rules of parlay when it suited him, then tried to tug on its lever once the benefit was reversed. In your language, you would call that kind of montser a 'lawyer.”
― Gregory Amato, Rune to Ruin

“Overcoming boredom and brooding was one thing, but the weather clearing up led to something even worse: work.”
― Gregory Amato, Rune to Ruin