|
6123fc7
|
You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
2e0ee6e
|
And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
1487f82
|
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.
|
|
religion
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
895fdff
|
And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it's all been done before? Make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take t..
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
90143c6
|
It's an artist's job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
001a15a
|
God does not play games with His loyal servants", said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. "Whoopee", said Crowley."
|
|
|
Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman |
|
46483c5
|
God does not play games with His loyal servants", said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. "Whoopee", said Crowley." --
|
|
|
Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman |
|
e1d7582
|
This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
fde5be8
|
One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].
|
|
the-sandman
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
7d505dc
|
Something told him that something was coming to an end. Not the world, exactly. Just the summer. There would be other summers, but there would never be one like this. Ever again.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
13293a9
|
When I was young I was a fool. So wrap me up in dreams and death.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
b7f299f
|
It was as if some people believed there was a divide between the books that you were permitted to enjoy and the books that were good for you, and I was expected to choose sides. We were all expected to choose sides. And I didn't believe it, and I still don't. I was, and still am, on the side of books you love.
|
|
gaiman
newbery-medal-acceptance-speech
neil-gaiman
the-graveyard-book
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
bda2095
|
Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.
|
|
daring
bravery
courage
dare
scared
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
e0bb0fe
|
I am old now, or at least, I am no longer young, and everything I see reminds me of something else I've seen, such that I see nothing for the first time. A bonny girl, her hair fiery red, reminds me only of another hundred such lasses, and their mothers, and what they were as they grew, and what they looked like when they died. It is the curse of age, that all things are reflections of other things.
|
|
wistful
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
dcac382
|
I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
65952ac
|
The heart is greater than the universe, for it can find pity in it for everything in the universe, and the universe itself can feel no pity. The heart is greater than a King, because a heart can know a King for what he is, and still love him. And once you give your heart, you cannot take it back.
|
|
love
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
bd286df
|
It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten."
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
2fa7e51
|
You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
3af36cd
|
People can change.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
161cea0
|
The world is always ending for someone. It's a good line. I give it to the father of the child. He says it to his wife. 'The world is always ending for someone,' he says. She is trying to quieten the baby, and does not hear him. I doubt that it would matter if she did.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
73e9fdb
|
Loki's green eyes flashed with anger and with admiration, for he loved a good trick as much as he hated being fooled.
|
|
fooled
loki
anger
trick
fool
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
f36e5f2
|
So, if a city has a personality, maybe it also has a soul. Maybe it dreams.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
6497b95
|
However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
2ed738d
|
And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...
|
|
youth
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
96cbd3e
|
Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.
|
|
migraine
countryside
suburbs
city
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
b431fd8
|
You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn to throw things away eventually.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
2cb3796
|
I never fell. I don't care what they say. I'm still doing my job, as I see it.
|
|
choice
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
9298a44
|
They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only one that we have ever owned to be our superior. There is but one greater than us, and to him... to him we no longer speak.
|
|
lucifer
hell
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
79c6b0f
|
All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories--if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.
|
|
stories
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
85aeb11
|
I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.
|
|
reading
reading-habits
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
c781ba0
|
Death has a body like a model, the clothes of a poet and the smile of your best friend. She wears a top hat for fun, her ankh necklace for power, and carries a big black umbrella for travelling to the 'sunless lands.' I wonder what she smells like? I'm sure it's fresh and clean and her laugh must be rinkly or maybe it's warm and chuckly, but whatever it is, Death laughs a lot. We talk about the 'miracle of birth' but what about the 'miracle..
|
|
death
sandman
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
b2068b0
|
If you can't eat it, drink it, smoke it, or snort it... then f*ck it!
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
cd00c6e
|
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.
|
|
life-lessons
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
8359502
|
Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my heart. Some of them. Not all.
|
|
writing
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
9878ddf
|
Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don't. I don't. People are much more complicated than that. It's true of everybody.' I said, 'Are you a monster? Like Ursula Monkton?' Lettie threw a pebble into the pond. 'I don't think so,' she said. 'Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometim..
|
|
fear
fantasy
truth
adults
age
inside
outside
children
childhood
monsters
scared
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
a1e1cfc
|
Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say they're scared for the fear to become real
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
f909269
|
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.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
60f29a3
|
Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.
|
|
death
life
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
0cde5df
|
He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man apologizes to his guests, and leaves them, muttering something about a prior engagement.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
5c744cf
|
Shadow looked down at the girl on the table. "What happened to her?" he asked. "Poor taste in boyfriends," said Jacquel. "It's not always fatal."
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
6475310
|
Just go with it. It won't hurt.' I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
9e0f28e
|
Whatever's happening," she said, eventually, "it can all be sorted out." She saw the expression on my face then, worried. Scared even. And she said, "After pancakes."
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
2088b98
|
The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
28aba8e
|
We were expecting to see you at the market." "Yes. Well. Some people thought I was dead. I was forced to keep a low profile." "Why . . . why did some people think you were dead?" The marquis looked at Richard with eyes that had seen too much and gone too far. "Because they killed me." --
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |