American Gods
Sundays 8:00 PM on StarzAmerican Gods Season 2 Episode 1: "House on the Rock" Quotes
She will find you and you will die with a sweet kiss on your lips and eternal darkness in your soul.
Czernobog
Then I have to put the fear of me into some old gods. Let them feel shock and awe. Pain and grief. Let them know what real sacrifice feels like.
World
Never, ever let anyone know I said this but sometimes, the old ways are the best. There's nothing like a knife in the back for close-up efficiency.
World
Shadow: Seriously, are you not worried about cancer?
Czernobog: I. Am. Cancer.
I accept my worship my way and I grow in power. The choice is yours. Evolve or die.
Bilquis
We've gotten by. We live in cracks at the edges of society, old forgotten gods in a land without gods. But there are new gods growing in America. They've already replaced us. Now, they want to destroy us completely and if you think otherwise, you are fooling yourselves.
Wednesday
Shadow: I'm dreaming.
Bilquis: It is real. We're just Backstage, waiting in the wings, inside Wednesday's memories.
Wednesday: In the good old USA, people still heed the call of the transcendent void but they respond to it by building a model out of beer bottles of somewhere they've never visited or by erecting a giant bat house in some part of the country that bats have traditionally declined to visit.
Shadow: Or they sell t-shirts and hot dogs.
Wednesday: Roadside attractions! Where they buy that hot dog and they buy that t-shirt. Then they wander around, feeling satisfied on a level that they cannot truly describe and profoundly dissatisfied on a level beneath that.
So, over the centuries, people in other countries felt called to places of power. They knew there was an energy there, a focus point, a channel, a window to the imminent, and they built churches, cathedrals, or they'd erect a stone circle. Well, you get the idea.
Wednesday
Laura: Wanna try your luck?
Sweeney: All my luck is yours, dead wife. Don't need to read about it.
Nancy: You know I got a son? Stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two for one sale. You remind me of him.
Shadow: Well, if you don't mind, I'll just take that as a compliment.
Nancy: Being called late on the motherfuckin' day they handed out brains is a compliment to you?
Shadow: Being compared to a member of your family.
Nancy: You might not be the worst choice old One Eye could've made, come to that.
When you take a man's measurements, you get a bill for his life's expenses.
Nancy
