{"quotes":[{"text":"Those movies... Ridiculously inaccurate. The real gods of Asgard — Thor, Loki, Odin, and the rest — are much more powerful, much more terrifying than anything Hollywood could concoct.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["hollywood","loki","magnus-chase","marvel","mythology","norse","norse-mythology","odin","thor"],"id":130204,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.","author":"Joanne Harris","tags":["history","loki","mythology","norse-mythology","the-gospel-of-loki"],"id":157796,"author_id":"Joanne+Harris"},{"text":"Hjuki and BilHjuki and Bil chased the moon,With waters from Byrgir’s well,Upon their shoulders they did share,Simul the pole and Saegr.‘Mani,’ they cried and chased the sky,‘From Byrgir whence we came,To water the earth and water your drink,And water the seas with rain’.Hati looked back and Skol ahead,But Mani gave no reply,For Hjuki he took, and bent his crook,And Bil was taken thereafter.Hjuki and Bil still chase the moon,From Byrgir whence they came,To water the earth and water the drink,And water the seas with rain.","author":"Angela B. Chrysler","tags":["elves","fantasy","norse-mythology","poetry"],"id":220642,"author_id":"Angela+B.+Chrysler"},{"text":"But if you write a version of Ragnarok in the twenty-first century, it is haunted by the imagining of a different end of things. We are a species of animal which is bringing about the end of the world we were born into. Not out of evil or malice, or not mainly, but because of a lopsided mixture of extraordinary cleverness, extraordinary greed, extraordinary proliferation of our own kind, and a biologically built-in short-sightedness.","author":"A.S. Byatt","tags":["apocalypse","end-of-the-world","environmental-catastrophe","gods","loki","myth","mythology","norse-mythology","ragnarok","self-destruction"],"id":263341,"author_id":"A.S.+Byatt"},{"text":"And yet, it was still a performance. Odin and I both knew it. It was a kind of play, a dream of how things might have been if he and I had been capable of trusting each other for a change. And so we hunted, and sang, and laughed, and told heavily edited stories of the good old days, while each of us watched the other and wondered when the knife would fall.","author":"Joanne Harris","tags":["loki","norse-mythology","nostalgia","odin","sadness","suspicion","trust"],"id":270274,"author_id":"Joanne+Harris"},{"text":"I happen to know that history is nothing but a spin and metaphor, which is what all yarns are made up of, when you strip them down to the underlay. And what makes a hit or a myth, of course, is how that story is told, and by whom.","author":"Joanne Harris","tags":["history","loki","mythology","norse-mythology"],"id":312609,"author_id":"Joanne+Harris"},{"text":"If you survive in battle, it is with Odin's grace, and if you fall, it is because he has betrayed you.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["gods","norse-mythology","odin","war"],"id":329612,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"The black thing in her brain and the dark water on the page were the same thing, a form of knowledge. This is how myths work. They are things, creatures, stories, inhabiting the mind. They cannot be explained and do not explain; they are neither creeds nor allegories. The black was now in the thin child’s head and was part of the way she took in every new thing she encountered.","author":"A.S. Byatt","tags":["memes","mythology","myths","norse-mythology"],"id":334887,"author_id":"A.S.+Byatt"},{"text":"She swung her legs around his waist and crossed her ankles behind his back. “I like the way your mind works,” she panted before losing herself in the sensation of his hardness rubbing against her core. Lief took the few steps across the room to the bed in record time and flung her down on the covers. He leaned back to tear his clothes off. “My mind hardly works at all when you are near.” She chuckled leaning back on her elbows, enjoying the view of naked flesh being revealed. She rose up on her knees and traced the ridges on his chest and abdomen. As her fingers trailed down toward his proud shaft, he captured her wrists.“Be careful.” He smiled down at her. “I’m loaded and might go off any minute.”She laughed. “You’ve been watching too many old Western movies with Harold.","author":"Asa Maria Bradley","tags":["norse-mythology","paranormal-romance","viking-romance"],"id":349634,"author_id":"Asa+Maria+Bradley"},{"text":"Your wolf is eating that man. I thought you should know.","author":"Joanne Harris","tags":["humour","norse-mythology"],"id":373275,"author_id":"Joanne+Harris"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}