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Anansi Boys quotes

Neil Gaiman

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“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their own song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our...” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“That’s the trouble with you young people . . . You think because you ain’t been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forget more than you ever know. ” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look so pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to...” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life . . . These things are wine, women and song.” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“'How do you take your coffee?' 'Dark as night, sweet as sin.'” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“Let’s start a new tomorrow, today.” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“The important thing about songs is that they’re just like stories. They don’t mean a damn unless there’s people listenin’ to them.” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don’t have their own song.” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“Birds . . . are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds. They get the early worms. And have you ever watched a chicken eat? They may look...” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

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