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If you survive in battle, it is with Odin's grace, and if you fall, it is because he has betrayed you.

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In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publi...more

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Well?" said Loki. "What about you, Heimdall? Do you have any suggestions?""I do," said Heimdall. "But you won't like it."Thor banged his fist down upo...more

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And then this whole deal of new gods, old gods," said his friend. "You ask me, I welcome new gods. Bring the on. The god of guns. The god of bombs. Al...more

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Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down ...more

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Fox was here first, and his brother was the wolf. Fox said, people will live forever. If they die they will not die for long. Wolf said, no, people wi...more

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It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

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So," he asked. "How's death?""Hard," she said. "It just keeps going.

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Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it.

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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

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Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker...more

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Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he ...more

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Gods are great," said Atsula, slowly, as if she were comprehending a great secret. "But the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and...more

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Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the en...more

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Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead