Those Old Gods Quotes

“And Juno Verdant? She will die, eventually, just not today. Today, she was just hurtling toward her own godhood like an over-caffeinated shopping trolley in a Black Friday sale: unstable, accelerating, and one display rack away from taking out a pensioner before security stepped in.”
― N.J. Leaver, Those Old Gods: Short Stories Volume One

“Ascension wasn’t a promotion, nor a reward. It wasn’t a gift tied up with a celestial ribbon. It was a gauntlet made of grief, loss, and just enough cruelty to make you wonder if the old gods were bored, or maybe testing you.”
― N.J. Leaver, Those Old Gods: Short Stories – A Humorous Urban Fantasy of Gods, Death, and Divine Bureaucracy