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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
“Fear is contagious. You can catch it.”
Neil Gaiman
,
The Graveyard Book
“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
“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
“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
“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
Neil Gaiman
,
The Graveyard Book
“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
“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
“You’ve a good heart . . . Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go . . . But mostly, it’s not.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Neverwhere
“But there’s none so blind . . . as those who will not listen.”
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 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
“If he didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset him”
Neil Gaiman
,
The Graveyard Book
“'How do you take your coffee?' 'Dark as night, sweet as sin.'”
Neil Gaiman
,
Anansi Boys
“Still, the proudest spirit can be broken, with love.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Coraline
“Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“Even Nothing cannot last forever.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“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
“Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“It doesn’t matter that you didn’t believe in us . . . We believed in you.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don’t knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know...”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“Mostly you are what they think you are.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“People couldn't become truly holy . . . unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.”
Terry Pratchett
,
Good Omens
“The only advice I can give you is what you’re telling yourself. Only, maybe you’re too scared to listen.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Neverwhere
“evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas”
Terry Pratchett
,
Good Omens
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