Anansi

"Believe nothing."

"You don't have to believe in something to know it's true."

"We are the forgotten gods. But we don't stay forgotten."

"We're older than your country, your science, your certainties."

"The old gods don't die. They just get forgotten."

"Death is the only honest thing in this world."

"The world doesn't care about your expectations."

"The only way out is through."

"Every person is a god if you look at them the right way."

"There is power in names."

"Every story is true if enough people believe it."

"The world spins on the edge of a blade."

"Stories are the only immortality."

"I am the God of Thursday, or was. Now I am the God of the spaces between things."

"In the spaces between the things, that's where the real magic happens."

"The dead have their own roads, and we shouldn't follow them lightly."

"The old gods never really die. They just become something else."

"You're an American. You've got the greatest responsibility in the world: to go home and to think of us sometimes."

"That's the thing about America. It's the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

"Bury me standing up. I've been on my knees long enough."

"The best way to survive is to remember where you come from."

"The gods are real because people believe they're real."

"Everything you own owns you."

"Everyone is afraid of something."

"Men are stupid."

"The old gods are always hungry."

"You are more than your name. You are more than your past."

"Every culture has given imaginative life to its people. Without it, we merely exist."