Courtney’s Reviews > The Book of I > Status Update

"The only gift which had been enriched by drink, age and failure, was poetry. The sand of his mind beach was rich in words, the mead of Odin flowed in his breast. Grimur could forge tongue swords to cut open the skin of the world. If anyone would listen. Which no one did."

"the air was full of something like the laughter that follows a really good joke. But instead of laughter, there were great, heaving body breaths of love."

"gang of hurt-causers"

"Buttercock, Bloodnose, Eyeballs, Gore Dog, Puffin Face, One Ear, Chin Slitter, Fuck-a-Whale, Lead Fist, Shorty Fat Dog, Denmark, Horse Boy, Madhead, and Ghost Axe - the men of Helgi Cleanshirt's boat"

"Taken together, if you catch it in one of those sudden moments when it's set in a bright shaft of sunlight, I is perfect: a miniature of the world."