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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
“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
“One describes a tale best by telling the tale.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“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
“He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“Let’s start a new tomorrow, today.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Anansi Boys
“The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“The truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
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
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Coraline
“Not only are there no happy endings . . . There aren’t even any endings.”
Neil Gaiman
,
American Gods
“when grown-ups told you something wouldn’t hurt it almost always did.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Coraline
“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
“You are young, and in love . . . Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.”
Neil Gaiman
,
Stardust
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