Svadilfari Quotes & Sayings

Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It's when you can't even feel pain anymore that you're in real trouble. — Haruki Murakami

What big eyes you have. Eyes of an incomparable luminosity, the numinous phosphorescence of the eyes of lycanthropes. The gelid green of your eyes fixes my reflective face; It is a preservative, like a green liquid amber; it catches me. I am afraid I will be trapped in it for ever like the poor little ants and flies that stuck their feet in resin before the sea covered the Baltic. He winds me into the circle of his eye on a reel of birdsong. There is a black hole in the middle of both your eyes; it is their still centre, looking there makes me giddy, as if I might fall into it. — Angela Carter

Those who say that money can't buy you love make it sound as if love can buy you money. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

But Loki's relations with Svadilfari were such that a while later he gave birth to a colt. — Snorri Sturluson

Dammit? Why would you give a dog such a name? Or is that a third date story too?"
"No, it's only a dog story." Rhett smiled and the temperature in the store shot up several degrees. "I named him Lambert after Miranda Lambert, but I guess he didn't like bein' named after a girl, so he sat there like a knot on a log every time I called him. So I'd say, 'Dammit, come here.' And here he'd come runnin' hell-bent for leather. So I gave up and called him Dammit. — Carolyn Brown

I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down. — Simone De Beauvoir

The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting — Mark Twain

Wolves mated for life. Where was he? Where was the echo to her howl, her mate? Was there no other lone wolf, searching the hills for her? — Andrea Hurst

Well, sometimes we do actually have to get up early, but a man will always trade sleep for sex. — Jerry Seinfeld

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe. — Marcus Aurelius

If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women. — Lisa Randall