“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.”
― Death Comes for the Archbishop
― Death Comes for the Archbishop
“Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“If you were close enough to her ruby-red lips you would hear her say, 'I will rise now and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek the one I love.' She is whispering that, and she whispers, 'By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. My beloved is mine and I am his.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
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