The Gospel of Loki (Loki, #1)

by Joanne M. Harris

And because this isn’t history, but mystery – my story – let’s start with me for a change.

A story can make your heart beat faster; topple walls; scale mountains – hey, a story can even raise the dead. And that’s why the King of Stories ended up being King of the gods; because writing history and making history are only the breadth of a page apart.

the difference between god and demon is really only a matter of perspective.

humiliation. Not that I wanted to be friends. Friendship is overrated. Who needs friends when you can have the certitudes of hostility? You know where you stand with an enemy. You know he won’t betray you. It’s the ones who claim to be your friends that you need to beware of.

Clever folk aren’t popular, by and large. They arouse suspicion. They don’t fit in.

Still, teenage werewolves are typically foul; hairy, smelly and monosyllabic. Not unlike the human kind, when you come to think of it, although most human youngsters would be incapable of tearing your head off with their bare hands and making it into a buttock sandwich.