A Gathering of Ravens Quotes

“This was no game of thrones where generals sacrificed and maneuvered on the backs of their soldiers; this was the most primal sort of conflict—Odin’s weather, the red chaos of slaughter—where men stood breast-to-breast and shield-to-shield, and dealt the same blows they took in kind.”
― Scott Oden, A Gathering of Ravens

“All we must do, child, is live well, help where we can, and take the good times with as much grace as the bad.”
― Scott Oden, A Gathering of Ravens

“We are all born, and we all die—be it from age and illness, like your people, or from battle, like mine. Everything between is what you make of it,” Grimnir said.”
― Scott Oden, A Gathering of Ravens

“The storm howled out of the west like the terrible voice of God, shouting down the heretics who doubted the coming Apocalypse.”
― Scott Oden, A Gathering of Ravens

“Étaín could have refuted everything Grimnir claimed, had her mind not been shattered from exhaustion; she could have told him that when the earth shook, every man, woman, and child inside Badon shared the same belief: that it was the hand of God, descended to earth to put paid to some nest of sinners, like Sodom and Gomorrah. No, sin was Badon’s downfall, and those whom the Almighty spared would go to their graves hard in the belief that they owed their existence from this day on to divine grace, to piety, and to the love of Christ Jesus.”
― Scott Oden, A Gathering of Ravens

“this oväder—this un-weather—was of the Devil’s making; that the fumes of Hell warmed the world of Man, and soon the armies of God would strike from the Gates of Heaven to set the balance right.”
― Scott Oden, A Gathering of Ravens