N.J. Leaver > Quotes

“Ascension wasn’t a promotion, nor a reward. It wasn’t a gift tied up with a celestial ribbon. It was a gauntlet made of grief, loss, and just enough cruelty to make you wonder if the old gods were bored, or maybe testing you.”
― N.J. Leaver, Those Old Gods: Short Stories – A Humorous Urban Fantasy of Gods, Death, and Divine Bureaucracy

“And Juno Verdant? She will die, eventually, just not today. Today, she was just hurtling toward her own godhood like an over-caffeinated shopping trolley in a Black Friday sale: unstable, accelerating, and one display rack away from taking out a pensioner before security stepped in.”
― N.J. Leaver, Those Old Gods: Short Stories Volume One