Top 1243 Neil Gaiman Quotes (Updated June 2023)

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Who the fuck's Herodotus?" Asked the Iceman. By Neil Gaiman

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. By Neil Gaiman

NEIL GAIMAN near Kinsale, County Cork 15 January 2001 By Neil Gaiman

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013) By Neil Gaiman

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything, Ray said once, in an interview. By Neil Gaiman

Ragnarok is coming. When the sky splits asunder and the dark powers of Muspell march out on their war journey, Frey By Neil Gaiman

I cross two fingers, a binary precaution against hex, effective as superconductor or simple superstition. By Neil Gaiman

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed. By Neil Gaiman

She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. By Neil Gaiman

I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone, By Neil Gaiman

I am NOT alone. I am accompanied by a large cat and a small girl. By Neil Gaiman

Most of the things that "everybody knows" are wrong. The rest are merely unreliable. Batman By Neil Gaiman

Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories of the future ... By Neil Gaiman

Learning how to be strong, to feel her own emotions and not another's, had been hard; but once you learned the trick of it, you did not forget. By Neil Gaiman

I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what I know. By Neil Gaiman

Can you be brave?' I did not know. I did not think so. It seemed to me that all I had done so far that night was to run from things. By Neil Gaiman

The only things that give it the illusion of being one country are the green-back, The Tonight Show, and McDonald's. By Neil Gaiman

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart. By Neil Gaiman

If you're doing it right... you should feel while you're doing it that you're revealing a little too much of yourself. By Neil Gaiman

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable. By Neil Gaiman

I wanted to write two thousand words a day, and if I wrote a thousand words a day I was happy. By Neil Gaiman

The coal shed smelled of damp and blackness and of old, crushed forests. By Neil Gaiman

The joy's gone out of me like the pee from a small boy in a swimming pool on a hot day. By Neil Gaiman

I think ... I said things to Silas. He'll be angry.''If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him,' was all she said. By Neil Gaiman

I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it. By Neil Gaiman

It's a weapon, I understand?""In the wrong hands, all tools are weapons. In the right hands, everything is a weapon, or nothing is. By Neil Gaiman

You've a good heart," she told him. "Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. By Neil Gaiman

If this was the afterlife, he thought, it was a lot like the House on the Rock: part diorama, part nightmare. By Neil Gaiman

He was cold, standing in a wood, talking to a big black bird who was currently brunching on Bambi. By Neil Gaiman

She removed my empty plate, replaced it with a bowl containing a steaming slice of spotted dick with thick yellow custard drizzled all over it. By Neil Gaiman

The only water in the forest is the River. By Neil Gaiman

Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all. By Neil Gaiman

Sometimes I wonder if she transforms people into animals, or whether she finds the beast inside us, and frees it. By Neil Gaiman

Think of us as symbols - we're the dream that humanity creates to make sense of the shadows on the cave wall. By Neil Gaiman

I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny. By Neil Gaiman

Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages. By Neil Gaiman

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies. By Neil Gaiman

I think ... that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt. By Neil Gaiman

She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty. By Neil Gaiman

There is hope for you,' said the Queen. 'You believe you are my only hope, but, truthfully, I am yours. By Neil Gaiman

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women. By Neil Gaiman

Ho hoka, Harry Bluejay," said John Chapman. "Fuck off, you crazy barefoot white ghost," said Harry Bluejay, conversationally. "You give me the creeps. By Neil Gaiman

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories. By Neil Gaiman

Did that happen?" asked Shadow. "Did what happen, shit-for-brains?" asked Mr. Nancy. "The hall. The fire. Tiger balls. Riding the Carousel. By Neil Gaiman

It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard. By Neil Gaiman

You can indeed become lost, in dreams. And you may not always find yourself when you wake up. By Neil Gaiman

What I'd love to do is every now and then go, 'Oh my God, I've got this amazing idea for 'Doctor Who.' By Neil Gaiman

Not an option. You burned your bridges. So keep walking. Do your own time ... By Neil Gaiman

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men. By Neil Gaiman

Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them. By Neil Gaiman

You don't need princes to save you. I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men. By Neil Gaiman

They say that cigarettes will kill you, eventually. Fine. That's just fine. I only wish they'd do it faster. By Neil Gaiman

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up. By Neil Gaiman

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? By Neil Gaiman

I've been inspired by dreams - I've even stolen scenes or images or characters from them. By Neil Gaiman

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that. By Neil Gaiman

this morning, listening to the BBC news, I learned that half of all prisoners in the UK have the reading age of an eleven-year-old, or below. This By Neil Gaiman

I offered you the world," she said. "When you're dying in a gutter, you remember that." "I'll make a point of it," he said. By Neil Gaiman

Have you ever got everything you ever wanted? And then realized it wasn't what you wanted at all? By Neil Gaiman

I found English to be a sort of Thomas Hardy aversion therapy. By Neil Gaiman

If I come back, it will be a place, but it won't be a home any longer. By Neil Gaiman

FORBIDDEN BRIDES OF THE FACELESS SLAVES IN THE SECRET HOUSE OF THE NIGHT OF DREAD DESIRE By Neil Gaiman

Wrote my book in many places - houses in Florida, and in a cabin on a Wisconsin lake, and in a hotel room in Las Vegas. I By Neil Gaiman

If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy. By Neil Gaiman

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters. By Neil Gaiman

I'm an explorer," said Coraline. By Neil Gaiman

Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author." By Neil Gaiman

Now all we have to worry about is all the other books, and, of course, life, which is huge and complicated and will not warn you before it hurts you. By Neil Gaiman

I made a list of inventions the world would be better off without and, one by one, I uninvented them all. By Neil Gaiman

Most of us find our own voices only after we've sounded like a lot of other people. By Neil Gaiman

I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing. By Neil Gaiman

The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but the dead can't. By Neil Gaiman

Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas. By Neil Gaiman

We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries. By Neil Gaiman

Bod was obedient but curious. By Neil Gaiman

Rattle his bonesover the stonesits only a pauperwho nobody owns By Neil Gaiman

Dreams are hopes, and echoes of hope. By Neil Gaiman

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it. By Neil Gaiman

Scared

I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold By Neil Gaiman

The universe knows someone is missing, and slowly it attempts to replace him. By Neil Gaiman

Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on. By Neil Gaiman

Heavens protect us from the dress sense of American academics. By Neil Gaiman

I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start. By Neil Gaiman

There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks. By Neil Gaiman

Sure as eggs is eggs," he said. "As the turkey-farmer said when he hatched his first turtle. By Neil Gaiman

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire. By Neil Gaiman

Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I. By Neil Gaiman

The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming. By Neil Gaiman

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end. By Neil Gaiman

If you survive in battle, it is with Odin's grace, and if you fall, it is because he has betrayed you. By Neil Gaiman

Hey, that's life, flick it off if you can't take a joke. By Neil Gaiman

We've had our ups and downs since then, but that's what families have, ups and downs. By Neil Gaiman

Ups
Families

I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don't need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It's what we do. By Neil Gaiman

The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow into the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me. By Neil Gaiman

ladies were in the kitchen, industriously packing away into Tupperware containers what looked like it had until recently been a large spread of food. By Neil Gaiman

I did not want to die at all. Understand that. But I could not let everything be destroyed, when I had it in my power to stop the destruction. By Neil Gaiman

This is a bad land for gods, said Shadow. As an opening statement it wasn't Friends, Romans, countrymen, but it would do. By Neil Gaiman

Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear. By Neil Gaiman

There is no end to the cruelty of men threatened by strong women." - Mr. Nancy By Neil Gaiman

Diana used to tell me she had a travel jinx, something I only really started to believe when the plane door fell off. By Neil Gaiman

You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter. By Neil Gaiman

I am not in my gallery and neither do I hold your sigil. Will you speak to me? By Neil Gaiman

Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. By Neil Gaiman

In psychiatry, Doctor -unlike, perhaps, the world of sexually transmitted disease clinics- there is no such thing as a cure. There is only adjustment. By Neil Gaiman

Watch out for that pedestrian!""It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking! By Neil Gaiman

Trolls can smell the rainbow, trolls can smell the stars. Trolls can smell the dreams you dreamed before you were ever born. By Neil Gaiman

I will never let go of your hand, not unless you tell me to. By Neil Gaiman

Hand

Family is who you survive with when you need to survive - even if you do not like them. By Neil Gaiman

Seemed that year that the only way that winter would end was if somebody hammered a stake through its heart"). By Neil Gaiman

You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world. By Neil Gaiman

If you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you'd be wrong. He'd be the other one. Over at the side. The one your eye slipped over. By Neil Gaiman

Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style. By Neil Gaiman

Leave no path untaken. By Neil Gaiman

I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work. By Neil Gaiman

Wednesday walked out into the firelight, a big old man with a glass eye in a brown suit and an old Armani coat. By Neil Gaiman

I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it. By Neil Gaiman

My heart ... It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it's trying to escape because it doesn't belong to me any more. It belongs to you. By Neil Gaiman

Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold. By Neil Gaiman

Still, every little bit helps, as the old woman said when she pissed in the sea. By Neil Gaiman

The daylight faded slowly: distances collapsed and the world turned indigo and the wind blew cold enough to burn the skin on your face. By Neil Gaiman

I will not be my father's dog. By Neil Gaiman

Dog
Father

He was not afraid. Not any more. Fear had died on the tree, as Shadow had died. There was no fear left, no hatred, no pain. Nothing left but essence. By Neil Gaiman

It's a good thing to be a god," said Shadow. "Is it?" asked Wednesday, By Neil Gaiman

I do not threaten, I merely advise caution. By Neil Gaiman

My last girlfriend was Greek," said the Iceman. "The shit her family ate. You would not believe. Like rice wrapped in leaves. Shit like that. By Neil Gaiman

Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way. By Neil Gaiman

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. By Neil Gaiman

EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. By Neil Gaiman

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. By Neil Gaiman

Lives are snowflakes - forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod, but still unique. By Neil Gaiman

The bonds of family bind us up, support us, help us. And they are also a bond from which it is difficult, perhaps impossible to extricate oneself. By Neil Gaiman

It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us," said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you. By Neil Gaiman

The limeade was very interesting. It didn't taste anything like limes. It tasted bright green and vaguely chemical. By Neil Gaiman

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time. By Neil Gaiman

Load of old tosh," said Peter, crossly. By Neil Gaiman

I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt. By Neil Gaiman

Watch where you put your words. By Neil Gaiman

There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply. By Neil Gaiman

The man with the black-and-white-striped eyes shivered, and began hunting for a door, but none of the guests had remembered to bring a door with them. By Neil Gaiman

Sharper than a serpent's tooth is a daughter's ingratitude. Still, the proudest spirits can be broken, with love. By Neil Gaiman

He looked like a small panther, and he moved like a patch of night. By Neil Gaiman

She looked at the spear in a way that no woman had ever looked at Richard By Neil Gaiman

But," expostulated Josiah Worthington. "But. A human child. A living child. I mean. I mean, I mean. This is a graveyard, not a nursery, blast it. By Neil Gaiman

Political movements, personal movements, all begin with people imagining another way of existing. By Neil Gaiman

People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer. By Neil Gaiman

Richard felt oddly proud. He had proved himself in the ordeal. He was One of Them. He would Go, and he would Bring Back Food. He puffed out his chest. By Neil Gaiman

He passed a stall in which five huge men were dancing to the music of a lugubrious hurdy-gurdy being played by a mournful-looking black bear; By Neil Gaiman

I'm never quite sure if I'm me when I'm dressed up. By Neil Gaiman

Dressed

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art. By Neil Gaiman

But time heals. Or at least it forms scabs. By Neil Gaiman

Go," said Wednesday, his voice a reassuring growl. "All is well, and all is well, and all shall be well. By Neil Gaiman

Tristran and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, By Neil Gaiman

He made love to Porcupine Woman and got his dick shot through with more needles than a pincushion. He'd argue with rocks and the rocks would win. By Neil Gaiman

Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway. By Neil Gaiman

You never forget. It must be somewhere inside you. Even if the brain has forgotten, perhaps the teeth remember. Or the fingers. By Neil Gaiman

In May I received an anonymous Mother's Day card. This puzzled me. I would have noticed if I had ever had children, surely? By Neil Gaiman

The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp. By Neil Gaiman

Richard paused for a moment. If ever, he decided, they made disorganization an Olympic sport, he could be disorganized for Britain. By Neil Gaiman

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read. By Neil Gaiman

But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open. By Neil Gaiman

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows. By Neil Gaiman

Some of these days You're going to miss me honey Some of these days You're gonna be so lonely You'll miss my huggin' You'll miss my kissin' ... By Neil Gaiman

American colonies were as much a dumping ground as an escape, a forgetting place. By Neil Gaiman

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer. By Neil Gaiman

She smiled up at him, a nervous, crooked smile in a dead face. By Neil Gaiman

Yesterday, all this was snow. Always winter, and never Christmas. By Neil Gaiman

I'll leave the way of words to walk the wood I'll be the forest's man, and greet the sun, And feel the silence blossom on my tongue like language. By Neil Gaiman

It is a sea of blood. We come from the sea, Tim; our blood is salt, and strange tides ebb and flow within us all. By Neil Gaiman

Here you go, she said. I don't need it anymore. I'm very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved some other people's death. By Neil Gaiman

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain. By Neil Gaiman

Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us. By Neil Gaiman

The dread had not left my soul. By Neil Gaiman

It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty. By Neil Gaiman

I'm not scared of falling,' he told himself. 'The bit I'm scared of is the bit where you stop falling, and start being dead. By Neil Gaiman

All they knew of religion was the Bean Sidhe, the banshee, who came to wail at the walls of a house where death soon would be, and By Neil Gaiman

Life as a commodity, people as possessions. Enslavement had been part of the culture of those parts for thousands of years. The By Neil Gaiman

That's the joy of a harlequinade, after all, isn't it? We change our costumes. We change our roles. By Neil Gaiman

I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways. By Neil Gaiman

Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of the night. By Neil Gaiman

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own. By Neil Gaiman

Everything here is so weak, little girl. Everything breaks so easily. They want such simple things. By Neil Gaiman

On the side of Mount Calamon a grove of glass flowers grows. The journey there is perilous, and the journey back is more so. By Neil Gaiman

was the sound of the most beautiful girl in the whole of the British Isles laughing with delight and amusement. By Neil Gaiman

Loki's green eyes flashed with anger and with admiration, for he loved a good trick as much as he hated being fooled. By Neil Gaiman

There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that, but you are the only you. By Neil Gaiman

People

Her kiss was gentle, and it tasted of spring rains and meadow flowers. The By Neil Gaiman

It's all in the details - what you put in, what you don't. I mean, you leave out the weather and what people are wearing, you can skip half the story. By Neil Gaiman

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were. By Neil Gaiman

She had a chain of blue forget-me-nots tattooed around her left wrist. By Neil Gaiman

They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive. By Neil Gaiman

The ties of blood," said Spider, "are stronger than water."Water's not strong," objected Fat Charlie. By Neil Gaiman

(Who Did No Harm to No Man all the Dais of Her Life. Reader, Can You Say Lykewise?). By Neil Gaiman

Didn't I just say you'll never get any two people to remember anything the same? By Neil Gaiman

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series. By Neil Gaiman

So," he asked. "How's death?""Hard," she said. "It just keeps going. By Neil Gaiman

In the cottage, two old women stared, envy and hope mixing in their faces, at a tall, handsome woman with black hair and dark eyes and red, red lips. By Neil Gaiman

But then it occured to him that any progress he had made on his quest so far he had made by accepting the help that had been offered to him. By Neil Gaiman

I'll swap you my dad," I said."Oh-oh," said my little sister. By Neil Gaiman

You didn't bring us here,' Lettie said. 'We came because we wanted to. And I came to give you one last chance to go. By Neil Gaiman

Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside. By Neil Gaiman

'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies. By Neil Gaiman

Amy: This time can we ... lose the bunk beds? The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can't beat that! By Neil Gaiman

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony. By Neil Gaiman

It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment. By Neil Gaiman

Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps. By Neil Gaiman

Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled. By Neil Gaiman

I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. By Neil Gaiman

Old but contented, the face of a man who had sipped life's vinegar and found it, by and large, to be mostly whiskey, and good whiskey at that. By Neil Gaiman

The boy with the dirty face stood up and hugged Coraline tightly. 'Take comfort in this,' he whispered. 'Th'art alive. Thou livest. By Neil Gaiman

handwritten piece of paper taped to the wall by the bar telling customers not to order a lager 'as a punch in the face often offends'. By Neil Gaiman

There are choices," she thought, when she had sat long enough. "There are always choices. By Neil Gaiman

We write our names in the sand, and then the waves roll in and wash them away. By Neil Gaiman

The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen. By Neil Gaiman

What need," Dunstan wondered, "could someone have of the storm-filled eggshells? By Neil Gaiman

I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you. By Neil Gaiman

And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would. By Neil Gaiman

There is a game in England, or there was when I was growing up, called What's the Time, Mister Wolf? It's By Neil Gaiman

I hate to say this, but it is my experience that when a doctor goes to the bad, he is a fouler and darker creature than the worst cut-throat. By Neil Gaiman

There's a brotherhood of people who read and who care about books. By Neil Gaiman

Oh ... My twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And I give you bowls of ice-cream. By Neil Gaiman

In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day. By Neil Gaiman

Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments. By Neil Gaiman

That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her. By Neil Gaiman

I'm not happy about any of this," said Thor. "I'm going to kill somebody soon, just to relieve the tension. You'll see. By Neil Gaiman

What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything. By Neil Gaiman

Richard opened his hand, and the key stared up at him from his palm. "By my crooked teeth," asked Richard, remembering, "who am I? By Neil Gaiman

I remembered something somebody had once said to me. It's okay. Everyday is freshly ground. By Neil Gaiman

They knew her, the graveyard folk, for each of us encounters the Lady on the Grey at the end of our days, and there is no forgetting her. By Neil Gaiman

There's no Hell to spite the sinners. There's no Heaven for the blessed. God is not what you imagine. By Neil Gaiman

I take it this is some obscure West Indian usage of the word 'similar' which means 'nothing at all alike'? By Neil Gaiman

Darling? This is Ursula Monkton, By Neil Gaiman

Can I help you? said the footman. Richard had been told to fuck off and die with more warmth and good humor. By Neil Gaiman

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead By Neil Gaiman

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. By Neil Gaiman

The paths that ghosts follow are written on the land in old words. Ghosts don't take the interstate. By Neil Gaiman

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing. By Neil Gaiman

She hugged herself and told herself that she was brave, and she almost believed herself [ ... ] By Neil Gaiman

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things. By Neil Gaiman

Death's a capricious thing, innit?" "Yes. Yes, she is. By Neil Gaiman

He said nothing: seldom do those who are silent make mistakes. By Neil Gaiman

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much. By Neil Gaiman

I make them up,' I tell them. 'Out of my head. By Neil Gaiman

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And the girl pulled whatever she could find deep inside her soul, from all the pain, and the hurt, and the fear. By Neil Gaiman

You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself for many things. By Neil Gaiman

Shadow had promised himself a bath when he got out of prison, and Shadow kept his promises. By Neil Gaiman

There are sneaking,creeping, crumplingnoises coming frominside the walls. By Neil Gaiman

What my business partner says is, if the Lord gives you a talent or a skill, you have the obligation to use it as best as you can. Don't you agree? By Neil Gaiman

Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden. By Neil Gaiman

Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross. By Neil Gaiman

I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant. By Neil Gaiman

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent. By Neil Gaiman

Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad.Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough. By Neil Gaiman

My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops. By Neil Gaiman

For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that. By Neil Gaiman

Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky. By Neil Gaiman

He fumbled around with his eyes closed. He groped about, reaching for the comfortable and familiar shaft of his hammer. By Neil Gaiman

You are an immaterial girl living in a material world. By Neil Gaiman

They didn't tell you?" Her voice was calm, emotionless. "Your wife died with my husband's cock in her mouth, Shadow. By Neil Gaiman

I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating. By Neil Gaiman

We authors, who trade in fictions for a living, are a continuum of all that we have seen and heard, and most importantly, all that we have read. By Neil Gaiman

It is a long story, and it does no credit to anyone: there is murder in it, and trickery, lies and foolishness, seduction and pursuit. Listen. It By Neil Gaiman

Scared my grandmother so much she nearly had kittens. By Neil Gaiman

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.' There By Neil Gaiman

Things inanimate have always been more difficult to change than things animate. Their souls are older and stupider and harder to persuade. By Neil Gaiman

You got a story to tell, and you are the only one who can tell it. Don't give up! By Neil Gaiman

Story
Give

To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due. By Neil Gaiman

You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman. By Neil Gaiman

You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary. By Neil Gaiman

You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well. Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head. By Neil Gaiman

I'm very clever,' said the Doctor. It was a good line, and he was determined to use it as much as possible. By Neil Gaiman

The man in the dark suit sips his Laphroaig and water, savoring the marshy taste, the body-in-the-bog quality of the whisky. By Neil Gaiman

To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost unknown in this day. By Neil Gaiman

George R.R. Martin is not your bitch. By Neil Gaiman

You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous. By Neil Gaiman

You are ignorant, boy," said Miss Lupescu. "This is bad. And you are content to be ignorant, which is worse. By Neil Gaiman

There is no end. It is simply the end of the old times, Loki, and the beginning of the new times. Rebirth always follows death. By Neil Gaiman

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art. By Neil Gaiman

We have eyes and we have nervesesWe have tails we have teethYou'll all get what you deservesesWhen we rise from underneath. By Neil Gaiman

Stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, By Neil Gaiman

He realized how much he wanted to take her pain away By Neil Gaiman

Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil, or it's all been done before? Make good art. By Neil Gaiman

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. By Neil Gaiman

You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly.'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline. By Neil Gaiman

I'll show you an imaginative re-creation, my fist imaginatively re-creating your fucken face for starters. By Neil Gaiman

Any way, death is so final, isn't it?"Is it?" asked Richard."Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down. By Neil Gaiman

He was standing on the pavement outside Nick Farthing's house, his face damp from the thick night mist. By Neil Gaiman

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thick-skinned, to learn that not every project will survive. By Neil Gaiman

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts. By Neil Gaiman

I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening. By Neil Gaiman

Skies, thought Old Bailey, in a satisfied sort of a way. Never a two of them alike. Not by day nor not by night, neither. By Neil Gaiman

It occurred to me then that the man might not be mad; I found this far more disquieting than the alternative. By Neil Gaiman

Being brave didn't mean you weren't scared. Being brave meant you were scared, really scared, badly scared, and you did the right thing anyway. By Neil Gaiman

This is crazy', said Shadow.Like the rest of your life is sane? Give me a fucking break. By Neil Gaiman

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - BEN FRANKLIN, POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK T By Neil Gaiman

You are an analog girl, living in a digital world. By Neil Gaiman

Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans. By Neil Gaiman

Some skills can be attained by education, and some by practice, and some by time. Those skills will come if you study. By Neil Gaiman

I wish I could purr, too. I would have purred then. By Neil Gaiman

Purr
Purred

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these By Neil Gaiman

Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here. By Neil Gaiman

Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes ... By Neil Gaiman

First rule of magic: Don't let anyone know your real name. Names have power. By Neil Gaiman

Life is life, and it is infinitely better than the alternative, or so we presume, for nobody returns to dispute it. Such is my motto. By Neil Gaiman

How Do You Feel This Morning When You Know What You Did Last Night? By Neil Gaiman

Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not. By Neil Gaiman

Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths By Neil Gaiman

But we do not need to recount every sermon and eulogy. After all, you were there. By Neil Gaiman

Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need to. By Neil Gaiman

I went down to Safeways, and I bought her a packet of best ground sirloin. By Neil Gaiman

That feeling I get when I go looking in my head for a word that isn't there, as if someone must have come and taken it in the night. By Neil Gaiman

What do you want to sing?" "My favorite song." "I don't know if she'll like that one." "She will." Marcus had the certainty of walls, of mountains. By Neil Gaiman

People named Tinkerbell name their daughters Susan. By Neil Gaiman

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy. By Neil Gaiman

..and the truth us not what people want to hear. It's a bad thing, and it troubles people. By Neil Gaiman

There is more to it than just, you prosper, your enemies fail, said Mama Zouzou. By Neil Gaiman

Not needing the money puts me in a magical place because I can say no. I like the idea of having good movies made or having no movies made. By Neil Gaiman

I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feelThe wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel By Neil Gaiman

I felt like someone who'd been informed that she wasn't actually a hooker; that in fact she was a lady of the evening. By Neil Gaiman

I loved to love what she loved. By Neil Gaiman

Loved
Love

If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for. By Neil Gaiman

Left
Wait

B is for boat, pushing off into the dark. C is the way that we find and we look. D is for diamonds, the bait on the hook. By Neil Gaiman

How you want your coffee?" she asked her guests. "Here we take it black as night, sweet as sin. By Neil Gaiman

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard. By Neil Gaiman

The view changes from where you are standing.Words can wound, and wounds can heal.All of these things are true. By Neil Gaiman

Wednesday was talking to him. "I'm sorry?" said Shadow. "I said we're here," said Wednesday. "You were somewhere else. By Neil Gaiman

We save our lives in such unlikely ways. By Neil Gaiman

Save
Lives

The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in. By Neil Gaiman

But you aren't in the chair now, are you, dear?" said September, an elegant creature of mock solicitude. By Neil Gaiman

And all the time we spent in this place would fade and vanish, like a dawn dream on waking that colours the day but cannot be touched or remembered. By Neil Gaiman

This aye night, this aye night; Every night and all; Fire and fleet and candlelight; And Christ receive thy soul By Neil Gaiman

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 foolin' a soul. By Neil Gaiman

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 foolin' a soul"). He By Neil Gaiman

When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel. By Neil Gaiman

Forgetfulness can sometimes bring freedom of a sort By Neil Gaiman

It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head. By Neil Gaiman

There are things you cannot throw away, things you cannot leave for your loved ones to find when you are gone. Things you have to burn. By Neil Gaiman

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. Take By Neil Gaiman

He 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. By Neil Gaiman

I love you is a good thing to say if you can mean it By Neil Gaiman

That was okay. Nice food. And no one was trying to kill us." "I'm sure that will remedy itself as the day goes on," said Hunter, accurately. By Neil Gaiman

No problem, I said with all the confidence of a lemming who thinks he's headed for a nice day at the seashore. By Neil Gaiman

I felt safe. It was as if the essence of grandmotherliness had been condensed into that one place, that one time. By Neil Gaiman

For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would have been much, much worse. By Neil Gaiman

The path of memory is neither straight or safe, and we travel down it at our risk. By Neil Gaiman

You're fucked up, mister. But you're cool." "I believe that's what they call the human condition, By Neil Gaiman

Not gay, just never met the right woman. By Neil Gaiman

The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death. By Neil Gaiman

The Sky was red, but not warm red of a sunset. This was an angry, glowering red, the colour of an infected wound. By Neil Gaiman

It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers. By Neil Gaiman

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? By Neil Gaiman

I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. By Neil Gaiman

No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author. By Neil Gaiman

I opened the door. "Don't do that," said a green, globby person. "You'll let the space-time continuum in. By Neil Gaiman

Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking. By Neil Gaiman

Mister whoever-the-fuck you are," said Shadow, just loud enough to be heard over the din of the engines, "there isn't enough money in the world. By Neil Gaiman

Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she had met made any sense. She sometimes wondered who they thought they were talking to. By Neil Gaiman

But I do not actually remember being a monster. I just remember wanting my own way. By Neil Gaiman

First time takes forever, and then ever after it's over in a flash? By Neil Gaiman

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different. By Neil Gaiman

Even in dreams and in death, a monk and a fox are from different worlds, as they were in life, and in different worlds they will forever stay By Neil Gaiman

Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between. By Neil Gaiman

Tools, of course, can be the subtlest of traps. By Neil Gaiman

Everything that is,casts a shadow By Neil Gaiman

Old Mrs. Hempstock sniffed. "You're a By Neil Gaiman

Be wise. Be brave. Be tricky. By Neil Gaiman

Elegantly accomplished," said Nehemiah Trot. "I shall compose an Ode. Would you like to stay and listen? By Neil Gaiman

There were people you could hug, and then there was Silas. By Neil Gaiman

But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it? By Neil Gaiman

Walk
Back

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you. By Neil Gaiman

I like things to be story-shaped. By Neil Gaiman

She wondered how she would feel to be a married woman. It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices. By Neil Gaiman

We ... we could be friends.'We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not. By Neil Gaiman

We... we could be friends, you know,' said Coraline.'We could be rare specimens of an exotic breed of African dancing elephants,' said the cat. By Neil Gaiman

Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped. By Neil Gaiman

Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy. By Neil Gaiman

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it. By Neil Gaiman

I really don't know what "I love you" means.I think it means "Don't leave me here alone. By Neil Gaiman

She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but not quite, forgotten how. By Neil Gaiman

Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight. By Neil Gaiman

It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this. By Neil Gaiman

Nobody's American," said Wednesday. "Not originally. That's my point. By Neil Gaiman

Here comes a candle to light you to bed, and here comes a chopper to chop off your head. By Neil Gaiman

Hunchbacks danced at my wedding for luck. It's a thing you don't see nowadays. By Neil Gaiman

I'm probably slightly more famous than I've been comfortable with. Famous enough to have my phone calls returned is about as famous as I want to be. By Neil Gaiman

Valentine preened, "Oh, I'm a panther," he said. "I shall slip unnoticed through the darkness like a dark unnoticeable slippy thing. By Neil Gaiman

When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about it. By Neil Gaiman

You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue. By Neil Gaiman

We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world. By Neil Gaiman

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea? By Neil Gaiman

Proper bread was white, and pre-sliced, and tasted like almost nothing: that was the point. By Neil Gaiman

They lived in their flat with a number of aging Highland terriers who had names like Hamish and Andrew and Jock. By Neil Gaiman

There is nothing in the whole of creation as beautiful as dinosaurs singing in harmony. By Neil Gaiman

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. By Neil Gaiman

What makes you think I'm giving you a ride?" "Because I'm a damsel in distress," she said. "And you are a knight in whatever. A really dirty car. By Neil Gaiman

You dumped me, and I don't exist anymore. By Neil Gaiman

I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. By Neil Gaiman

You save a man's life, you're responsible for him'? By Neil Gaiman

There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before. By Neil Gaiman

All your tomorrows start here. By Neil Gaiman

Richard made a break for it. 'Sorry,' he said to the stunned guard, as he yanked his arm out of the man's grip, and fled. 'Wrong London.' By Neil Gaiman

If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him. By Neil Gaiman

Care
Upset

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time. By Neil Gaiman

The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it. By Neil Gaiman

Idea
Truth

Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on. By Neil Gaiman

Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself. By Neil Gaiman

I'm English, and 'Doctor Who' was this thing that I've been watching since I was three. By Neil Gaiman

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse. By Neil Gaiman

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades. By Neil Gaiman

I heard we see the world not as it is, but as we are. By Neil Gaiman

Heard
World

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them. By Neil Gaiman

Love belongs to Desire. And Desire is always Cruel. -Old Man By Neil Gaiman

An April breeze ran across the meadow, stirring the bushes and the trees in one long chilly sigh. By Neil Gaiman

His hair was dark and his eyes were dark and he wore black leather gloves of the thinnest lambskin. By Neil Gaiman

They took hands, the living with the dead, and they began to dance. By Neil Gaiman

The Macabray, the dance of the living and the dead, the dance with Death. By Neil Gaiman

That's what I said," said the cat. By Neil Gaiman

He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur but he'll be there. By Neil Gaiman

Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is? By Neil Gaiman

How old are you, really?" I asked. "Eleven." I thought for a bit. Then I asked, "How long have you been eleven for? By Neil Gaiman

THE LITTLE MAN HURRIED into the Fountain and ordered a very large whisky. "Because," he announced to the pub in general, "I deserve it. By Neil Gaiman

Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. By Neil Gaiman

Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many. By Neil Gaiman

It was love, I knew, and it tasted like champagne in my mind. By Neil Gaiman

But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me. By Neil Gaiman

If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each others' tragedies. By Neil Gaiman

I gain my freedom on the day the moon loses her daughter, if that occurs in a week when two Mondays come together. I await it with patience. By Neil Gaiman

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. By Neil Gaiman

Too soon, the sun will rise. By Neil Gaiman

Rise
Sun

Alas, respect for the truth compels perfect honesty By Neil Gaiman

There are those who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one ... By Neil Gaiman

Time, tide and cocktail hour wait, as it were, for no man. By Neil Gaiman

Do not take revenge in the heat of the moment. By Neil Gaiman

Being a geological formation gives you a lot of time to think. Also, I subscribed to a number of learned journals. By Neil Gaiman

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one. By Neil Gaiman

She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win. By Neil Gaiman

The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys. By Neil Gaiman

Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored. By Neil Gaiman

She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why. By Neil Gaiman

It's a good thing to have friends with more houses than they have bodies, especially if they're happy to share. By Neil Gaiman

This was beyond a joke. This had moved beyond foolishness, slipped over the line into genuine 24 karat Jesus-Christ-I-fucked-up-bigtime territory. By Neil Gaiman

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with. By Neil Gaiman

Make your mistakes, next year and forever. By Neil Gaiman

I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time. By Neil Gaiman

Everything was new once, after all. By Neil Gaiman

You will learn more from a glorious failure than ever you will from something that you never finished. By Neil Gaiman

She is not waiting. Not quite. It is more that the years mean nothing to her anymore ... By Neil Gaiman

And he reports the battle news, and then says, 'Oh, and by the way, Pan wants you to build him a temple. By Neil Gaiman

Shadow smiled. "And how old would that be?" "Old as my tongue," said Wednesday. "And a few months older than my teeth. By Neil Gaiman

It's all about the dominant fucking paradigm, Shadow. By Neil Gaiman

Let's start a new tomorrow, today. By Neil Gaiman

Thank you for coming. Enjoy the things that never happened. Secure your own mask again after you read these stories, but do not forget to help others. By Neil Gaiman

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not. By Neil Gaiman

Everything waited. The night was ending. The world was holding its breath, preparing to begin again. By Neil Gaiman

From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic. By Neil Gaiman

What good is a vocabulary that isn't used? By Neil Gaiman

It always ends. That's what gives it value. By Neil Gaiman

Ends

I have a really high tolerance level for twits. I really do. By Neil Gaiman

enter the world of things as they are By Neil Gaiman

Loki was trying to look serious, but even so, he was smiling at the corners of his mouth. It was not a reassuring smile. By Neil Gaiman

He ordered a family pack of chicken, and sat and finished it off without any help from anyone else in his family. By Neil Gaiman

I'm bored," she said."Learn how to tap-dance," he suggested, without turning around. By Neil Gaiman

But the brilliant were subject to mental aberrations, were they not? By Neil Gaiman

The Gods did not count time spent fishing in the hours of a man's life. By Neil Gaiman

All good technology should be used to piss off people's parents. By Neil Gaiman

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife. By Neil Gaiman

I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge. By Neil Gaiman

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones. By Neil Gaiman

Then the lights went out, and Shadow saw the gods. By Neil Gaiman

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants. By Neil Gaiman

That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger. That's as maybe. But that which does kill us, kills us, and ain't that a bitch ... By Neil Gaiman

Of course I have to take sides, said Pepper. Everyone has to take sides in something. By Neil Gaiman

Pepper
Sides

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. By Neil Gaiman

Death had vanished from the streets of America, thought Shadow; now it happened in hospital rooms and in ambulances. We must not startle the living, By Neil Gaiman

Guy Fawkes Night, By Neil Gaiman

You're too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They By Neil Gaiman

Talk is free," said Odd, "but the wise man chooses when to spend his words." It was something his father used to say. By Neil Gaiman

Of course it was Loki. It's always Loki. By Neil Gaiman

Loki

Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times. By Neil Gaiman

The stuff you bring back from dreams is free. By Neil Gaiman

You look like something the goat dragged in.' 'Cat dragged in,' said Shadow. 'Goat,' said Wednesday. 'Huge rank stinking goat with big teeth. By Neil Gaiman

We think that tomorrow, unless we surrender, they may drop the moon on us." "You're joking.""Wish I was. By Neil Gaiman

Squamous. He did not need to look it up. He knew. They By Neil Gaiman

There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song. By Neil Gaiman

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept. By Neil Gaiman

Liberty," boomed Wednesday, as they walked to the car, "is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses. By Neil Gaiman

Mister Trod?" said Bod. "Tell me about revenge.""Dish best served cold." said Nehemiah Trot. By Neil Gaiman

Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined? By Neil Gaiman

I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other. By Neil Gaiman

Sometimes the ship would sail above dark storm clouds, as big as mountains, and the crew would fish for lightning bolts with a small copper chest. By Neil Gaiman

I'll find you. Don't worry. Just be on your own and I'll find you. By Neil Gaiman

Find
Worry

It seemed unlikely, but then, from what little I remembered, they shad been unlikely people. By Neil Gaiman

I'm intrigued with figuring out the places [where] the horrible and the beautiful meet - that aesthetic fascinates me. By Neil Gaiman

Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them. By Neil Gaiman

Will eventually grow up and get a real job. Until then, will keep making things up and writing them down. By Neil Gaiman

You eternals have long lives, but short memories. The changing people have short lives, but we do not forget. By Neil Gaiman

Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night. By Neil Gaiman

A man who knows that time and the train wait for no man. By Neil Gaiman

Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked. By Neil Gaiman

Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines. By Neil Gaiman

Rebirth always follows death. By Neil Gaiman

Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from which to view the world. So, By Neil Gaiman

Anything electronic seemed fundamentally magical to Shadow, and liable to evaporate at any moment. By Neil Gaiman

Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered. By Neil Gaiman

Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence. By Neil Gaiman

That's an Anansi story. 'Course, all stories are Anansi stories. Even this one. By Neil Gaiman

He fell for a hundred years into darkness By Neil Gaiman

And there was a voice, a high clear, female voice, which said "Ow", and then, very quietly, it said "Fuck", and then it said "Ow", once more. By Neil Gaiman