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"'You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. It's young people who turn up their toes and die because they're not interested enough to live. You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter- some one who's got the will to live.'"

"'He's the kind that fair bullies you into living whether you want to or not.'"

"- she and old Dr. Grainger were allies of long standing. He bullied and she defied- they always got a good deal of pleasure out of each other's company!"

"But her sensible, shrewd, Victorian mind would not admit that for a moment. There was no foolish optimism about the Victorians. They could believe the worst with the utmost ease.
Emily Arundell believed the worst."

"'Hmph,' said Emily Arundell. 'All here for what they can get.'
'Oh, dear Miss Arundell-'
'My good Minnie, I'm not a fool, whatever else I am! I just wonder which of them will open the subject first.'"

"'Oh, she's crazy about him!' said Charles with confidence. 'Odd taste, but there it is. I think it must be the way he looks at her, as though she were a scientific specimen and not a live woman. That's rather a novelty for Theresa. Pity the fellow's so poor. Theresa's got expensive tastes.'"

"It was poor Bella's fate in life to be passionately fond of clothes without having any clothes sense."

"Bob and Spot, the butcher's dog, circled slowly round each other, hackles raised, growling gently. Spot was a stout dog of nondescript breed. He knew that he must not fight with customer's dogs, but he permitted himself to tell them, by subtle indication, just exactly what mincemeat he would make of them were he free to do so.
Bob, a dog of spirit, replied in kind."

"'It is not the end. There is no end. It is simply the end of the old times, Loki, and the beginning of the new times. Rebirth always follows death. You have failed.'" Heimdall tells Loki with his last breath as they lay dying side by side on the battle field of Ragnarok

"'.... Yes, exactly! I knew you would get there in the end, Thor.'
Thor nodded with enthusiasm, not entirely certain how he had come to this conclusion from ashes on the floor but happy to know where Loki was hiding."

"He convulses then, jerks and judders, jolts and twists and writhes, so much that the whole earth shakes.
When that happens, we here in Midgard call it an earthquake."

Just finished reading Act 1, I forgot just how much fan service there is in it. Can't believe I didn't think to read the series sooner, even with the ridiculous amount of fan service it's one of my favourite animes!

"'... That was yesterday's Loki. Today's Loki is here to save you and to take you home.'"

"'And now that we have seen your power, we know how foolish we were to let you reach Utgard. I plan to defend my fortress in the future, and the way that I plan to defend it best is to ensure that none of you ever find Utgard, or see it again, and to be quite certain that whatever happens in the days to come, none of you will ever return.'" - loved this story ♡

"Loki's green eyes flashed with anger and with admiration, for he loved a good trick as much as he hated being fooled."

"'Good lord,' he said. "It's an invasion of tiny toddlers. No, my mistake. You must be the famous Thor of Aesir, which means you must be Loki, Laufey's son....'" - Utgardaloki, Loki of Utgard

"Thialfi ran as no man alive had ever run. He ran as a peregrine falcon dives, he ran as a storm wind blows, he ran like Thialfi, and nobody has ever run like Thialfi, not before and not since."

"No one, then or now, wanted to drink the mead that came out of Odin's ass. But whenever you hear bad poets declaiming their bad poetry, filled with foolish similes and ugly rhymes, you will know which of the meads they have tasted." - p. 71 from epub, estimated p. 132 from book

"... as they fight they realized that each side needed the other: that there is no joy in a brave battle unless you have fine fields and farms to feed you in the feasting that follows." - p. 128

"The seas that girdle the worlds: these were Ymir's blood and his sweat.
Look up into the sky: you are looking at the inside of Ymir's skull. The stars you see at night, the planets, all the comets and the shooting stars, these are the sparks that flew from the fires of Muspell. And the clouds you see by day? These were once Ymir's brains, and who knows what thoughts they are thinking, even now."

"Our rocks and pebbles, the sand and gravel you see: these were Ymir's teeth, and the fragments of bones that were broken and crushed by Odin and Vili and Ve in their battle with Ymir."

"Odin and Vili and Ve killed the giant Ymir. It had to be done. There was no other way to make the worlds. This was the beginning of all things, the death that made all life possible."

"It is said that at Ragnarok, which is the end of the world, and only then, Surtr will leave his station. He will go forth from Muspell with his flaming sword and burn the world with fire, and one by one the gods will fall before him."

"Loki is Odin's blood brother. The other gods do not know when Loki came to Asgard, or how. He is Thor's friend and Thor's betrayer. He is tolerated by the gods, perhaps because his stratagems and plans save them as often as they get them in trouble."

"Loki walks in the sky with shoes that fly..."

"Thor wears iron gloves, which help him to grip the hammer's shaft."

"As best as we can tell, the gods of Asgard came from Germany, spread into Scandinavia, and then out into the parts of the world dominated by the Vikings- into Orkney and Scotland, Ireland and the north of England- where the invaders left places named for Thor or Odin."

irascible:
adjective

having or showing a tendency to be easily angered.

Beauty Parlour Tips

"...
Trust the venerable Chinese to pander to horny pandas."

That's not even the worst line. This same, short poem also discusses chimpanzee sex then goes into "panda porn films". I'm not reading this any more.

House Fly

"Soulless bitch goddess blacklisted
..."

That's one hell of a way to start :/

Poem For Planet Earth

"...
the sightseeing's not up to much
unless you crave arid uneven terrain
a landscape unfit for a thirsty camel
Might as well peer into a Tandoori oven

..."

"...

High-tech NASA rubbish abandoned
on the Martian plains waits for archeologists
or scavengers from other galaxies
..."

Ok that was actually funny and amusing :)

Postcard From Moscow

"...
The rattling washer spins wildly
like a sex machine massaging
a naked brain with soapy water
..."

Why and how does he manage to throw something referencing sex into so many of his poems? They seem unnecessary most of the time and it's becoming tedious.