"Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces."

Mythology, Adventure, Afterlife, Joy, Hope

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"I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta."Leo snorted. "What's a wine god doing in Kansas? Gods are weird."

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"What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?"

George R. R. Martin, American Author

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Dan Brown, American Author

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"She's as old as the hills, evil as a snake, all malevolence and magic and death."

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"In Muspell, at the edge of the flame, where the mist burns into light, where the land ends, stood Surtr, who existed before the gods. He stands there now...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."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"The 'Elves' are 'immortal', at least as far as this world goes: and hence are concerned rather with the griefs and burdens of deathlessness in time and change, than with death."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"A sensible man may fear certain possibilities, but don't let fear turn possibility into certainty."

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"Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw."

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"Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?"

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"Those were great big angry men with sharp swords actually wanting to cut pieces off me. It's not until you've seen a red gaping wound and all the complex little bits inside a man all broken up and sliced open, and known that they weren't ever getting back together again, and vomited your last two meals over the rocks . . . it's not until then that you understand the business of swords properly and, if you're a sensible man you vow to have nothing to do with it ever again."

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