The Hunger of the Gods Quotes

“If more made that choice, in their head and hearts, to live a peaceful life with those they love and value, and just allow others to do the same.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“Make your choice, fat man,” Halja said. “Life or death?” Sighvat laughed again. “Who do you think you are, the Skullsplitter?”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“Real courage is to feel fear, but to stand and face it, not run from it.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“Strange, that their cruelty will bring about their own downfall.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“Life is a knife's edge, and all can change with the thrust of a blade.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“We are none of us born warriors,” Orka muttered. “It is the world that makes us so.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“We decide what is the way of the world. Us. People. It is not imposed upon us by some greater force.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“I saw how scared he was to enter the woods, knowing that frost-spiders might be in the branches above us, and yet he stayed. He stood and fought his fear. There is much to respect in that,”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“So, what’s the plan?” Lif asked. “And please don’t say kill them all but one.”
All of the Bloodsworn laughed at that, even Halja cracking her lips in a smile.
“That may be a little too much for even the Skullsplitter to achieve,” Revna said, looking at Lif and giving him a wink. “It would be hard for even her to get through so many in just one night.”
“No,” Orka said, shaking her head. “That is not the plan. I have a new plan, just this once. I am going to go down to that camp, find my son and get him out of there. And I will only kill those who try to stop me.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“And we found more than we bargained for. We found battle and blood. We found death.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“Life is a knife’s edge”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“Once you unlock a door you cannot control what comes out of it,”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“We are fighting those who would enslave us Tainted, and yet we have gone and done it to our own. Do the ends always truly justify the means?”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“There is a new power loose in the world, and there can be no standing against it. Better to join it than be destroyed by it.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“She swore an oath to us all, as we did to her. To stand, unto death.” Røkia shrugged. “Life is full of disappointments. But my guess is Svik seeing her alive like that. Well, it’s like ripping out the stitches of a wound.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“A crackle of pain at saying the words out loud. It was as if the grief were an ocean within her, swirling beneath a layer of ice, always there, lurking.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“Well, he is scowling, but he isn’t walking away. Or hitting me. That’s a good sign, surely?”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“Guðvarr grabbed a fistful of Hakon’s hair and pulled him back, dragged the edge of his sword across Hakon’s throat.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“Agnar Battle-Grim,” Jarl Störr said. “Returned to us again. This time come to take my silver and fight in my shield wall, I hear. Is my ungrateful daughter still in your band of misfits, or has she moved on to leech from some new host?” A silence filled the room, all looking at Elvar as she stepped forward a pace. “Agnar is dead and the Battle-Grim have a new chief,” Elvar said as she pushed the hood of her bearskin cloak back. “Hello, Father.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“I don’t give a steaming troll-turd who or what you are. Harm my son and you’re a dead man walking,”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“I would cross the oceans of the world for you,” he said, stroking her cheek with a slabbed hand. “Only death would stop me.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“Not all courage is found with a sword in your fist,”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“He should make a stone of his heart.” “I can see that would help avoid the pain of betrayal, true enough, but it also stops you feeling the joy of friendship or love,” Varg mumbled.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“Well, Breca Thorkelsson,” the man said, “you’re going to have a scar on your face from this cut for the rest of your life. So next time you think about running away, you put your hand to this scar, and you remember what happens to runaways. And you remember who gave it to you. My name’s Brák Trolls-Bane, and don’t you go forgetting it.” “I won’t,” snarled Breca.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“Where wolf’s ears are, wolf’s teeth are near,”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“Life is a knife’s edge, and all can change with the thrust of a blade.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“Then he would know that she had the strength and will to succeed without him. To succeed despite him and his twisted ways. Although she despised him, she still wanted him to know.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“I am your death,” Vol said to him.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“calls”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods