When We Were Vikings Quotes

“He needs to write his own legend.”
― Andrew David MacDonald, When We Were Vikings

“sometimes the heroes of legends have to break the rules in order to save the people they care about.”
― Andrew David MacDonald, When We Were Vikings

“...Sometimes the world thinks something is not possible, but it turns out that they can be wrong.”
― Andrew David MacDonald, When We Were Vikings

“Most Viking women stay at home and have babies and cook and clean. But that was never the type of woman I wanted to be.”
― Andrew David MacDonald, When We Were Vikings

“And we make lists, rules, and try to order things, trying to control them, when actually the most important parts of life, the parts really worth cherishing, are the things we don't expect.”
― Andrew David MacDonald, When We Were Vikings

“the most important parts of life, the parts really worth cherishing, are the things that we don’t expect.”
― Andrew David MacDonald, When We Were Vikings

“...Sometimes life finds us, and when it does we have to rise to the occasion and have courage. And we make lists, rules, and try to order things, trying to control them, when actually the most important parts of life, the parts really worth cherishing, are the things that we don't expect.”
― Andrew David MacDonald, When We Were Vikings

“You can't change the past" she said. "But going forward. What does your legend need?”
― Andrew David MacDonald, When We Were Vikings

“Normally changing my schedule would make me nervous, but in order to perform in the world, as Dr. Laird said, I had to become ok with schedule changes, since not everything works according to the same schedules.”
― Andrew David MacDonald, When We Were Vikings

“Their swords would be bigger, but it isn't how big your swor is, AK47 is always saying, it's how you use it.”
― Andrew David MacDonald, When We Were Vikings

“Most of the heroes of the sagas are men who saved fair maidens from villains and monsters, because the fair maidens could not save themselves. This was a problem. I did not want to be a fair maiden who needed to be saved. I wanted to be the hero doing the saving.”
― Andrew David MacDonald, When We Were Vikings

“when you love someone you try not to be bothered by gross things they do when they can’t help it.”
― Andrew David MacDonald, When We Were Vikings

“Sometimes the most important things don't fit on lists.”
― Andrew David MacDonald, When We Were Vikings