Quote by Terry Pratchett

“His eyeless skull took in the line of costumes, the waxy debris of the makeup table. His empty nostrils snuffed up the mixed smells…

— Terry Pratchett

“We passed through glowering statues of monsters and gods whom I'd fought in person- the vulture Nekhbet, who'd once possessed my Gran (Long story);…

— Rick Riordan

“If Attolia could look like a queen, Eugenides was like a god revealed, transformed into something wholly unfamiliar, surrounded by the cloth-of-gold bedcover like…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“I have seen things. I saw the great Mantis God of Africa fighting a creature from the primordial depths, a billion-year war until finally…

— Charlie Human

“There were no ugly gods. Their first expression of power was in the reshaping of their selves, into forms lovely to behold.”

— Steven Erikson

“It was like the face of some ancient archangel, judging justly after heroic wars. There was laughter in the eyes, and in the mouth…

— G.K. Chesterton

“They were buffoons with barricaded eyes, their shoulders held in positions of immovable defense. Each position upon the great floor could be seen as…

— Frank Herbert

“He was like some tragic figure in Greek mythology whose offenses against the gods had caused them to design for him this exquisite torture:…

— Michael Lewis

“But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving what they…

— Madeline Miller

“At a great distance appeared with the same pomp the sheep of Thebes, the dog of Bubastis, the cat of Phoebe, the crocodile of…

— Voltaire

“Before execution, scapegoats were often worshipped like deities.”

— Peter Thiel

It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of…

— Pat Conroy