C. > C.'s Quotes

“The whole reason Fenrir’s name is Fenrir is because man-hating-bitch-from-Hell is too much of a mouthful, and you can’t say it in polite company.”
― C. Gockel, Wolves

“Loki’s eyes go over to Beatrice and then rove down Amy’s body. He mutters something. Even though it is in a strange foreign language, it sounds heavy with gratitude. His eyes close again and Amy says to the wolf. “What did he just say?” Blinking, the wolf says, “Oh, he said ‘By the World Tree you have nice tits.’” And then it pops out of existence. Amy leans away, just a little bit horrified. Beatrice shakes her head ruefully. “Well, he’s not the god of niceness.” Standing up she says, “I’m going to bed.”
― C. Gockel, Wolves

“I’m not sure I’m clear on how comic books and movies differ from myths,” says Loki. “Except in the medium.”
― C. Gockel, Wolves

“You can tell the God of Blunder he can take that idea and shove it up his great big Viking butt!”
― C. Gockel, Wolves

“Humans have fallen so far since the early days when they’d just throw you a party when you killed a monster.”
― C. Gockel, Wolves

“If I’m going to see Odin kneel before me while I hold his testicles in my hands as all of Asgard burns, I have to start somewhere.”
― C. Gockel, Wolves

“How can you even joke about that?!” Loki tilts his head. The serious answer, the truthful answer, is how can he not?   Joking about pain is the only weapon he has. It is the way he thumbs his nose up at the universe. The way he proves he is unbroken, and if not the god of mischief, then at least mischief’s master. But that isn’t the funny answer.”
― C. Gockel, Wolves

“there is a velociraptor equivalent of mad cow disease”
― C. Gockel, Ragnarok

“Amy says. “Hitting him doesn’t help his misogyny!”
― C. Gockel, Ragnarok

“It would be an appropriate time to cry, but what comes out of her mouth is a joke. “I think Schrödinger’s cat just bit me on the butt.”
― C. Gockel, In the Balance

“There is no future, Loki,” said Frigga. “Only possibilities that become more and more likely probabilities, and probabilities that become realities.” The queen smiled down at him. “Although some people say that with each choice we make a new thread is spun, and from all our choices a new universe is born. Our fate is not one single strand of thread, but an infinite spider web.”
― C. Gockel, In the Balance

“It turned out to be not such a great idea. Thor Odinson, that bastard, is apparently a hero in a “comic book” and “movie franchise” and they thought he was lying.”
― C. Gockel, Wolves

“Killing the man-beast they’ve identified as Ed Malson would have been far cleaner with his sword, but since swords have fallen out of fashion here on Earth, it raises too many questions. Hence he settled for beating him to death with a small log. The”
― C. Gockel, Wolves

“I swear to Vishnu, if this doesn’t work, I’m going to stab you in the throat with a Pipette.”
― Kyoko M., Of Cinder and Bone

“Paul Radin quote: He knows neither good nor evil yet he is responsible for both. He possesses no values, moral or social … yet through his actions all values come into being.”
― C. Gockel, Warriors

“So all he has to do to get cheerful and immediate obedience is use Star Wars speak? How had he not know that?”
― C. Gockel, Ragnarok

“Each person was a culture unto themselves.”
― C. Gockel, Noa's Ark

“If you’re stuck in the elevator, hit the control panel with a hammer!”
― C. Gockel, Noa's Ark

“But life without love was like a rat that had been dead for a few days. You could eat it, but it wasn’t as delicious.”
― C. Gockel, Carl Sagan's Hunt for Intelligent Life in the Universe

“Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.”
― Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

“If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“There will come a day when love, and staying together, will be a decision, not a feeling.”
― C. Gockel, Heretic

“Three more days, or three hundred more years, life is too short to be worried. I will enjoy every moment I can.”
― C. Gockel, Heretic