“Loki's green eyes flashed with anger and with admiration, for he loved a good trick as much as he hated being fooled.”

“In their huge bedroom that night, Tyr said to Thor, "I hope you know what you are doing.""Of course I do," said Thor. But he didn't. He was just doing whatever he felt like doing. That was what Tho...”

“Loki was trying to look serious, but even so, he was smiling at the corners of his mouth. It was not a reassuring smile.”

“On the day the Gjallerhorn is blown, it will wake the gods, no matter where they are, no matter how deeply they sleep.Heimdall will blow Gjallerhorn only once, at the end of all things, Ragnarok.”

“He is tolerated by the gods, perhaps because his stratagems and plans save them as often as they get them into trouble.Loki makes the world more interesting but less safe. He is the father of monst...”

“I learned the Norse gods came with their own doomsday: Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods, the end of it all. The gods were going to battle the frost giants, and they were all going to die.Had Ragn...”

“A dwarf will always tell tall stories.”

“Never interrupt a faerie circle ceremony. And, if a faerie has appeared to you, visually, do not speak to it until it has spoken to you. These two transgressions are considered so rude, that the fa...”

“I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.”

“It is man who has abandoned God, not God who has abandoned man.”

“Remember that when you think you are seeing giants, they may not be giants at all; perhaps it is you who is the dwarf.”

“All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.”

“Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didnt want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didnt feel so good today.”

“I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”