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“It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”
Neil Gaiman
,
The Graveyard Book
“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
Neil Gaiman
,
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“Fear is contagious. You can catch it.”
Neil Gaiman
,
The Graveyard Book
“You have to believe. Otherwise it will never happen.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Stardust
“Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Stardust
“moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Neverwhere
“Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from which to view the world.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“You’ve a good heart . . . Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go . . . But mostly, it’s not.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Neverwhere
“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
Neil Gaiman
,
The Graveyard Book
“But there’s none so blind . . . as those who will not listen.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?”
Neil Gaiman
,
Coraline
“Still, the proudest spirit can be broken, with love.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Coraline
“All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“'How do you take your coffee?' 'Dark as night, sweet as sin.'”
Neil Gaiman
,
Anansi Boys
“You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”
Neil Gaiman
,
The Graveyard Book
“They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are the masks behind which we see our own faces.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Coraline
“You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“There’s never been a true war that wasn’t fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Neverwhere
“Don’t start anything you’re not prepared to finish.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“One describes a tale best by telling the tale.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Neverwhere
“Adventures are all very well in their place . . . but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Stardust
“There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks”
Neil Gaiman
,
Stardust
“People imagine, and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“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
“Mirrors . . . are never to be trusted.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Coraline
“Now, you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Coraline
“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Stardust
“Richard had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Neverwhere
“If he didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset him”
Neil Gaiman
,
The Graveyard Book
“Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Anansi Boys
“If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.”
Neil Gaiman
,
The Graveyard Book
“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. ”
Neil Gaiman
,
Where do you get your ideas?
“Words save our lives, sometimes.”
Neil Gaiman
,
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not fooling a soul”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“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
“The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Neverwhere
“He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Stardust
“I have always felt, . . . that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final sanctuary of the terminally inept.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Neverwhere
“Call no man happy . . . until he is dead.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“It doesn’t matter that you didn’t believe in us . . . We believed in you.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
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