“I felt the weight of unmapped worlds, unborn language.”
― Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
― Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
“I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-Eyed. I am called Highest, and True-Guesser. I am Grimnir, and I am the Hooded One. I am All-Father, and I am Gondlir Wand-Bearer. I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die. My ravens are Huginn and Muninn, Thought and Memory; my wolves are Freki and Geri; my horse is the gallows.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“Hands folded under my chin, I drifted. A bruise-colored cloud hung over Koko Head. A transistor radio twanged on a seawall where a Hawaiian family picnicked on the sand. The sun-warmed shallow water had a strange boiled-vegetable taste. The moment was immense, still, glittering, mundane. I tried to fix each of its parts in memory. I did not consider, even passingly, that I had a choice when it came to surfing. My enchantment would take me where it would.”
― Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
― Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
“People always pay a lot of money for things that make them stupid.”
― Summer of Night
― Summer of Night
“Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
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