Neil Gaiman, American Gods

Quotes

• “Hey,"said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are."The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and it...”
• “I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you m...”
• “What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it k...”
• “That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cove...”
• “I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put int...”
• “The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.”
• “It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us,"said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you.”
• “So,"he asked. "How's death?""Hard,"she said. "It just keeps going.”
• “Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead”