Book: American gods

- And quite often and successfully.

Probably nothing in the world more naked than the exposed human body.

The coroner - this is our public position, said IBIS. His duty is to kick the corpse. If the corpse did not answer him the same, he signs the death certificate.

If you believe the sign on the door, cafe worked, but on the girl's face, wiping the counter, clearly read "Closed"...

There is no worse blind than those who do not want to listen.

The old gods - in this new godless country.

In a world where every day dozens of people die, we need to remember that every moment of grief when life leaves man, have a moment of joy when the light is born a child.

- ... Just remember the kid that threw off the shoes at the moment when the neck tightened a loop - just because someone once said that they will die without taking his shoes off. Like, not in his bed.
- Is that a sense of humor? asked the Shadow.
- What do you think. The humor of the gallows. The best humor in the world.

They were holding hands so tight as if the mere sensation of the hand in hand was enough to make everyone in the world stood in its place.

The room was chilled. It smelled of people who left here for a different life, it smelled of everything that they ate and dreamed about.

It's hard these days to find a good joke.

Sisters are not guessing. Because they say only the truth, and the truth people do not want to listen. True - thing is bad, it makes people feel bad, and at other times they will not come. I lie how the water pours, you tell them what they want to hear. So the bread in this house, I earn one.

Then it seemed that the only way to end the winter is to drive her stake through her heart.

Sometimes he stayed and something picked up from the ground: a flower, a leaf, a pebble, a twig, a blade of grass. And began staring at her as if he had his head in netochnosti branches or in the deciduous leaf.