Because it's easier to pass for real, in the dark. People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.

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American Gods Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel about an ex-con who becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities. But another flare of lightning told him differently: they had holes for eyes, and they had teeth, which grinned without humor.” ‘“Oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.” As if you can not have a river that is also a road, or a song that is also a color.” The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom.

Here are some of the best American Gods quotes that resonated in particular for me, in no particular order. Johnnie went to the airport but was not allowed to board a plane because he did not have a valid act of identification. American Gods Quotes Total quotes: 21 Show Metadata Hide Metadata. We cannot allow it to.” But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.” People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. Each of the bones was dry and ball-like. This is somewhat similar to the way that Hercules was made into a Disney movie. Not affiliated with Harvard College.Magdalena, Micola, Dessi Gravely.

I wonder what happens to them? “I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. American Gods (2017-) is an American TV show, airing on Starz, about a former convict named Shadow who meets a man known as Mr. Wednesday, who seems to know more about Shadow than is possible, and who drags him into a conflict of epic proportions between the old gods, who have now incorporated themselves into American life, and the New Gods, including Media and Technology.
I want to be alive.”

“Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, “casualties may rise to a million.” With individual stories, the statistics become people - but even that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer in numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless.” Nor whether there was any difference between the two ideas. “The quickest way is sometimes the longest.”

For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: ). And I don't want to have to pass. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama anymore. “Shadow could not decide whether he was looking at a moon the size of a dollar, a foot above his head, or whether he was looking at a moon the size of the Pacific Ocean, many thousands of miles away. The American Gods quotes below are all either spoken by Shadow Moon (Baldur) or refer to Shadow Moon (Baldur). But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”

“There was a girl, and her uncle sold her. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen.” Similarly, Post-Colonial critics might examine the events and perspectives that are historicized to better understand the power dynamics that have been perpetuated in the simplification of American history. "As the turkey farmer said when he hatched his first turtle.” Such things could not occur. He does not believe in happiness in the real sense and is aware of the fact that someone can’t be happy during his life because he will always have to face difficulties. Also, as time passes, things become increasingly more difficult to deal with and each period of time in a person’s life leaves a mark and a wound that never heals completely. The quote wants to suggest that as time passes by, the old Gods die. This is how we walk and talk and function, day in, day out, immune to others' pain and loss. New Historicists might inquire about interpretations of American history and what these portrayals of America say about their interpreters. “The TV's the altar. “You people talk about the living and the dead as if they were two mutually exclusive categories.
“I think I would rather be a man than a god. American Gods Quotes by Neil Gaiman About American Gods American Gods Summary Character List Glossary Themes Quotes Analysis Symbols, Allegory and Motifs Metaphors and Similes Irony Imagery Literary Elements Essay Questions went the question. Shadow Moon is the main protagonist and central subject of American Gods.He is a seemingly ordinary man from the Midwest, who is caught up in the war between the Old Gods and the New Gods when Mr. Wednesday hires him as a bodyguard.