Runelight Quotes

“There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever do anything wrong that, frankly, just gave him the creeps.”
― Joanne Harris, Runelight

“Nothing dreamed is ever lost, and nothing lost forever.”
― Joanne Harris, Runelight

“There’s an old Northlands saying that goes like this: When lies don’t help. try telling the truth. Loki knew it well, of course, but preferred his own version, which was: When lies don’t help, tell better lies.”
― Joanne Harris, Runelight

“If I’m going to die today, the least I can do is look fabulous while I’m doing it.”
― Joanne Harris, Runelight

“We’re gods, not saints. Everyone lies. Everyone cheats. Everyone scores off everyone else.”
― Joanne Harris, Runelight

“For a moment something almost as rare as the sight that they had just witnessed occurred: Loki was totally lost for words.”
― Joanne Harris, Runelight

“Does that mean I can't hammer him?' said Thor.
Heimdall scowled. ‘Not yet,’ he said.‘When can I hammer him, please?’ said Thor.”
― Joanne Harris, Runelight

“Loki was hurling fire runes and holding a running commentary on her battle, to which no one but him was listening to.
‘And Thor gets in behind Frey and - WHAM! BOOM! That’s got to hurt. And Loki SCORES! This boy’s on FIRE!”
― Joanne Harris, Runelight

“Don’t you underestimate Dream,’ she said. ‘Dream is a river that flows both ways, from Order to Chaos and back again. Dream is the wellspring of creation; even Death is no match for it. Nothing dreamed is ever lost, and nothing lost for ever – that’s the Auld Man telling us that what’s destroyed can be rebuilt – aye, even castles in the clouds!”
― Joanne Harris, Runelight

“And now the Old Man recited the prophecy of the Seeress: The Cradle fell an age ago, but Fire and Folk shall raise her In just twelve days, at End of Worlds; a gift within the sepulchre. But the key to the gate is a child of hate, a child of both and neither. And nothing dreamed is ever lost, and nothing lost for ever.”
― Joanne Harris, Runelight

“You're really that good?" he said at last.
Loki shrugged. "I'm Loki.”
― Joanne Harris, Runelight