02c. 1970 ADIt's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant.Kevin Hearne / quote ↗
03c. 1970 ADcome humans, fulfill your evolutionary purpose adn build your hound a fire." OberonKevin Hearne / quote ↗
04c. 1970 ADBut there was no going back to that idyllic time when only one god wanted to kill me.Kevin Hearne / quote ↗
05c. 1970 ADJesus "...It sounds like these guys would be filed under Assholes Who do Evil Shit in My Name.Kevin Hearne / quote ↗
06c. 1970 ADGods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history.Atticus O'SullivanKevin Hearne / quote ↗
07c. 1970 ADWhen in doubt, know your way out, I always say.""I thought you always said, 'When in doubt, blame the dark elves.'""Well, yeah, that too.""I don't think those are very practical solutions to doubt," Oberon said. "They don't leave you feeling satisfied. 'When in doubt, eat your neighbor's lunch' is better, because then you would at least be full.Kevin Hearne / quote ↗
09c. 1970 ADWhen people ask how old I am, I just tell them twenty-one, and if they assume I mean years instead of decades or centuries, then that can't be my fault, can it?Kevin Hearne / quote ↗
10c. 1970 ADHamlet promised himself he’d throw down afterward, but I think perhaps when he said, “From this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!” the limits of blank verse weakened his resolve somehow. If he’d been free to follow the dictates of his conscience rather than the pen of Shakespeare, perhaps he would have abandoned verse altogether, like me, and contented himself with this instead: “Bring it, muthafuckas. Bring it.Kevin Hearne / quote ↗
11c. 1970 ADMorrigan "What are guilt ferrets:"Atticus "They're bastards. They cling to your neck and tickle and bite and generally make you miserable, which is a pretty good trick for a metaphor." They were also impervious to logic, perhaps their most diabolical power.Kevin Hearne / quote ↗
13c. 1970 ADAnd there were carved hearts in the trunks of trees with the initials of couples who felt there was no more romantic thing they could do to celebrate their love than scar the local plant lifeKevin Hearne / quote ↗
14c. 1970 ADThe answer to enemies who heal annoyingly fast is always, always decapitation. That is why swords will never go out of style.Kevin Hearne / quote ↗
15c. 1970 ADShe'd made life poignant for the Irish. The terror she inspired gave peace its serenity; the pain she caused gave health its lustre; her failure to love made me grateful for my ability to do so, and I realized, far too late, that though I never did or could have loved her as she might have wished, I should have loved her more.Kevin Hearne / quote ↗
16c. 1970 ADFor me, the times I always regret are missed opportunities to say farewell to good people, to wish them long life and say to them in all sincerity, "You build and do not destroy; you sow goodwill and reap it; smiles bloom in the wake of your passing, and I will keep your kindness in trust and share it as occasion arises, so that your life will be a quenching draught of calm in a land of drought and stress." Too often I never get to say that when it should be said. Instead, I leave them with the equivalent of a "Later, dude!" only to discover there would be no later for us.Kevin Hearne / quote ↗
17c. 1970 ADThe essence of Druidry is training the mind to both handle contradictory input and construct contradictory outKevin Hearne / quote ↗
18c. 1970 ADPR guys get paid to make people believe that a pile of shit is an investment in soil fertility. Professional liars.”“Ah!” Manannan’s expression lit with comprehension. “They are politicians?Kevin Hearne / quote ↗
