American Gods
Sundays 8:00 PM on StarzAmerican Gods Season 2 Episode 1: "House on the Rock" Quotes
Wednesday: Zorya Vechernyaya. Evening Star, Lady of the Sunset. Do you know how beautiful you look?
Zorya: I am old. Your tongue is a wicked tick.
Wednesday: We're both old. But nobody's ever complained about my tongue.
Apparently the houses in this area were built by some skinny white motherfucker named Frank Lloyd Wright. Some say his evil twin brother built this one. Frank Lloyd Wrong. Another skinny white motherfucker.
Nancy
The wit and wisdom of Queen Bilquis defeated King Solomon.
Wednesday
You invited the Old Gods to the party. I was old in the desert before they sacrificed the first horse to you. I will be heard.
Bilquis
Wednesday: Highways can be very dangerous places. If it's any comfort I know what it's like to be dead. I once sacrificed myself for knowledge. I hung on the Great Tree Yggdrasil for nine days and nine nights.
Laura: And look at you now. All alive.
Laura: Oh, I'm just keeping an eye on my husband.
Wednesday: Look at him. He's got a spring in his step he didn't have when he left prison.
Laura: Which is strange since his wife was murdered.
Wednesday: Who'd you bring me? John Henry?
Nancy: No choo-choo train, no John Henry. You know that.
Wednesday: Whiskey Jack?
Nancy: No whiskey, no Whiskey Jack.
Wednesday: Not even the Rabbit?
Nancy: Ha! You are persona non grata in the rabbit community. I think you know why. So Easter told me to tell you she ain't coming on account of you mowing over bunnies with your car like some kind of fuckin' rabbit racist.
Mr. Nancy: Mad Sweeney! Is that you or it that Wednesday's bullshit I smell?
Sweeney: That keen nose, Mr. Fancy Pants. But that ain't Irish sexy you're smelling. It's Roadkill Rhonda over here.
The President is a cardboard cut-out. I am the man behind the men behind the man. Operation Paperclip. The moon landing. Roswell. The Compton Crack Wars. You work for me. You have always worked for me.
Mr. World
Laura: What is The House on the Rock?
Wednesday: A place where people come to look, play, and wonder.
Laura: Like Disneyworld.
Wednesday: Dear old Walt. Built a magic kingdom without any magic.
Laura: I still don't understand how a sweet, old man could have so many enemies.
Wednesday: Oh, it's perfectly simple, my dear. Jealousy. Pure, unmitigated jealousy. They all want what I have, a good time wherever I go.
I can't sell war without my best salesman. You need to find her. Find Media.
Mr. World
