C. Gockel > Quotes

“I’m not sure I’m clear on how comic books and movies differ from myths,” says Loki. “Except in the medium.”
― C. Gockel, Wolves

“The whole reason Fenrir’s name is Fenrir is because man-hating-bitch-from-Hell is too much of a mouthful, and you can’t say it in polite company.”
― C. Gockel, Wolves

“Humans have fallen so far since the early days when they’d just throw you a party when you killed a monster.”
― C. Gockel, Wolves

“There is no future, Loki,” said Frigga. “Only possibilities that become more and more likely probabilities, and probabilities that become realities.” The queen smiled down at him. “Although some people say that with each choice we make a new thread is spun, and from all our choices a new universe is born. Our fate is not one single strand of thread, but an infinite spider web.”
― C. Gockel, In the Balance

“It would be an appropriate time to cry, but what comes out of her mouth is a joke. “I think Schrödinger’s cat just bit me on the butt.”
― C. Gockel, In the Balance

“The most common way people give up their power is by believing they have none.”
― C. Gockel, Gods and Mortals: Thirteen Urban Fantasy & Paranormal Novels

“Amy says. “Hitting him doesn’t help his misogyny!”
― C. Gockel, Ragnarok

“there is a velociraptor equivalent of mad cow disease”
― C. Gockel, Ragnarok

“Loki’s eyes go over to Beatrice and then rove down Amy’s body. He mutters something. Even though it is in a strange foreign language, it sounds heavy with gratitude. His eyes close again and Amy says to the wolf. “What did he just say?” Blinking, the wolf says, “Oh, he said ‘By the World Tree you have nice tits.’” And then it pops out of existence. Amy leans away, just a little bit horrified. Beatrice shakes her head ruefully. “Well, he’s not the god of niceness.” Standing up she says, “I’m going to bed.”
― C. Gockel, Wolves

“Killing the man-beast they’ve identified as Ed Malson would have been far cleaner with his sword, but since swords have fallen out of fashion here on Earth, it raises too many questions. Hence he settled for beating him to death with a small log. The”
― C. Gockel, Wolves

“he gives her a look that is almost sympathetic. “Your species is retarded.”
― C. Gockel, Monsters

“But the true inconvenience of love, Loki decides, is that even as passion wanes, love is still there.”
― C. Gockel, Monsters

“It turned out to be not such a great idea. Thor Odinson, that bastard, is apparently a hero in a “comic book” and “movie franchise” and they thought he was lying.”
― C. Gockel, Wolves

“Paul Radin quote: He knows neither good nor evil yet he is responsible for both. He possesses no values, moral or social … yet through his actions all values come into being.”
― C. Gockel, Warriors

“You can tell the God of Blunder he can take that idea and shove it up his great big Viking butt!”
― C. Gockel, Wolves

“So all he has to do to get cheerful and immediate obedience is use Star Wars speak? How had he not know that?”
― C. Gockel, Ragnarok

“Three more days, or three hundred more years, life is too short to be worried. I will enjoy every moment I can.”
― C. Gockel, Heretic

“If I’m going to see Odin kneel before me while I hold his testicles in my hands as all of Asgard burns, I have to start somewhere.”
― C. Gockel, Wolves

“How can you even joke about that?!” Loki tilts his head. The serious answer, the truthful answer, is how can he not?   Joking about pain is the only weapon he has. It is the way he thumbs his nose up at the universe. The way he proves he is unbroken, and if not the god of mischief, then at least mischief’s master. But that isn’t the funny answer.”
― C. Gockel, Wolves

“There is a special room in Hell for file organization quality control.”
― C. Gockel, Monsters

“Each person was a culture unto themselves.”
― C. Gockel, Noa's Ark

“If you’re stuck in the elevator, hit the control panel with a hammer!”
― C. Gockel, Noa's Ark

“But life without love was like a rat that had been dead for a few days. You could eat it, but it wasn’t as delicious.”
― C. Gockel, Carl Sagan's Hunt for Intelligent Life in the Universe

“There will come a day when love, and staying together, will be a decision, not a feeling.”
― C. Gockel, Heretic

“Loki had a theory he called “The Law of Twelve Times.” He believed that whenever men outnumbered women, every woman appeared twelve times more beautiful than she would under ordinary circumstances.”
― C. Gockel, Ragnarok

“The pink hadrosaur jumps over 13 purple griffins in the icebox”
― C. Gockel, Chaos

“Ull is an honest-to-goodness Norse god — an immortal assassin fated to die at Ragnarok,”
― C. Gockel, Gods and Mortals: Thirteen Urban Fantasy & Paranormal Novels

“giving his hand a shake. Noa squinted up at the vessel. “It’s large enough for our founding families.” She took off toward the steps. James caught up to her. “It looks older than I remember. And … mutated.” Noa scowled. Picky off-worlder. True, the ship looked a little beat-up. The sides were scarred with over a decade’s worth of asteroid impacts, and”
― C. Gockel, Archangel Down

“Wait for me!” Kara jogged along Saint Paul Street.”
― C. Gockel, Gods and Mortals: Thirteen Urban Fantasy & Paranormal Novels

“How did you get out of the fey globe?” I asked, struggling to keep my composure. Her eyebrow arched again. “It seems my mother doesn’t subscribe to the whole imprison Aoife plan.”
― C. Gockel, Gods and Mortals: Thirteen Urban Fantasy & Paranormal Novels