|
7b9f14b
|
As I wouldn't wear a costume, I couldn't imagine him wanting to wear one. And seeing that the greater part of my wardrobe is black (It's a sensible colour. It goes with anything. Well, anything black)[...].
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
fe16aee
|
So computers are tools of the devil?" thought Newt. He had no problem believing it. Computers had to be the tools of somebody, and all he knew for certain was that it definitely wasn't him."
|
|
|
Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman |
|
d4ccc32
|
It must be good to have somewhere that you belong. Somewhere that's home.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
c2896eb
|
Islington smiled superciliously. "Lucifer?" It said. "Lucifer was an idiot. It wound up lord and master of nothing at all." The marquis grinned. "And you wound up lord and master of two thugs and a roomful of candles?"
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
20faeb2
|
It was true: the other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. In the other mother's button eyes, Coraline knew that she was a possession, nothing more. A tolerated pet, whose behavior was no longer amusing.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
83c640b
|
Oh, monsters are scared', said Lettie. 'And as for grown-ups...' She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a finger. Then, 'I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not o..
|
|
inspirational-quotes
neil-gaiman
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
45dd49a
|
I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.
|
|
inspirational
sandman
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
078757f
|
Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
46040b1
|
I am the most unhappy soul alive.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman The Sandman |
|
8cf681c
|
Of course, he was in favor of Armageddon in general terms. If anyone had asked him why he'd been spending centuries tinkering in the affairs of mankind he'd have said, "Oh, in order to bring about Armageddon and the triumph of Hell." But it was one thing to work to bring it about, and quite another for it to actually happen. Crowley had always known that he would be around when the world ended, because he was immortal and wouldn't have any ..
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett |
|
20ab504
|
His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47.
|
|
life
good-omens
|
Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett |
|
3b85fc5
|
gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide
|
|
|
Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman |
|
20ae591
|
Never f*!k with the ineffable.
|
|
religion
humor
|
Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett |
|
264de8d
|
And, selfish and scared, I wonder how much more he has to give.
|
|
michael-zulli
neil-gaiman
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
139a337
|
Having a baby is the single mos joyous co-experience that two human beings can share, and he wasn't going to miss a second of it. He got one of the Secret Service men to videotape it for him.
|
|
having-a-baby
|
Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman |
|
c58d060
|
In truth, Kipling's politics are not mine. But then, it would be a poor sort of world if one were only able to read authors who expressed points of view that one agreed with entirely. It would be a bland sort of world if we could not spend time with people who thought differently, and who saw the world from a different place.
|
|
rudyard-kipling
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
a7daa60
|
George R.R. Martin is not your bitch.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
801d793
|
I loved to love what she loved.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
868d296
|
The world is not ending. Not if, as Astounding Science Fiction used to suggest, humans are bright enough to think our way out of the problems we think ourselves into. I
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
279b65a
|
Behind them were the lights of the market, the lanterns and candles and witch-lights and fairy glitter, like a dream of the night sky brought down to earth.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
d1827bf
|
I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is because they only tell the truth, and the truth is not what people want to hear. it is a bad thing and it troubles people, so they do not come back.
|
|
truth
|
neil gaiman |
|
9f63658
|
I still feels like I done when I was a tiny slip of a thing, making daisy chains in the old pasture. 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 |
|
d0f3b3e
|
I know it's crooked, but it's the only game in town.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
2ed55fd
|
Silas continued, in his voice like velvet, "You had parents. An older sister. They were killed. I believe that you were to have been killed as well, and that you were not was due to chance, and the intervention of the Owenses." "And you," said Bod, who had had that night described to him over the years by many people, some of whom had even been there. It had been a big night in the graveyard. Silas said, "Out there, the man who killed your ..
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
3dee5a3
|
Remember your name. Do not lose hope--what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams Trust your heart, and trust your story. [...] Do not forget your manners. Do not look back.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
619817f
|
Still, every little bit helps, as the old woman said when she pissed in the sea.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
6281775
|
In the manner of one recognizing a line from a familiar poem in a strange book.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
afc2b8e
|
There is nothing to be frightened of," said the Rajah. "Very few tigers are man-eaters." "But I am," said the tiger. "You might be lying," said the Rajah. "I might be," said the tiger. "But I'm not."
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
00dd166
|
But she knew also that it would not be wise to begin her life with Tristan by arguing with his mother.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
4705fb4
|
I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.
|
|
knowledge
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
ec558e2
|
There are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would be to hasten their transition to another plane of existence." "They kill themselves, you mean?" said Bod. He was about eight years old, wide-eyed and inquisitive, and he was not stupid. "Indeed." "Does it work? Are they happier dead?" "Sometimes. Mostly, no. It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go an..
|
|
suicide
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
c53b36b
|
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.
|
|
whiskey
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
2be8384
|
P'raps it will be like that and p'raps it won't. And p'raps if it is, it would have been like that anyway. I don't care. I'm still going to wait here for Lettie Hempstock, and she's going to come back to me. And if I die here, then I still die waiting for her, and that's a better way to go than you and all you stupid horrible things tearing me to bits because I've got something inside me that I don't even want.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
4c57251
|
She took my hands in her, then, and squeezed them. 'But you stayed where you were meant to be, and you didn't listen to them. Well done. That's quality, that is,' and she sounded proud. In that moment I forgot my hunger and I forgot my fear.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
89b291b
|
She wondered whether cats could all talk where she came from and just chose not to, or whether they could only walk when they were here - wherever here was.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
5ba27d7
|
I cried until I was all cried out.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
df21d23
|
I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
b9aa0e0
|
All things want to open. You must feel that need, and use it... And then, suddenly, she understands, and, somewhere in her heart, she lets it be what it wants to be...and it opens.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
7956468
|
One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irritably into the middle of the flames, which made Thor feel slightly better and made all the dwarfs feel much worse.
|
|
murder
feelings
prye
thor
flames
dwarfs
fire
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
8fb995a
|
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.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
1fe177c
|
I have lost people, though. It's strange when it happens. I don't actually lose them. Not in the way one loses one's parents, either as a small child, when you think you are holding your mother's hand in a crowd and then you look up, and it's not your mother... or later. When you have to find the words to describe them at a funeral service or a memorial, or when you are scattering ashes on a garden of flowers or into the sea.
|
|
the-man-who-forgot-ray-bradbury
trigger-warning
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
63e7a60
|
Mr. Young hadn't had to quiet a screaming baby for years. H'ed never been much good at it to start with. He'd always respected Sir Winston Churchill, and patting small versions of him on the bottom had always seemed ungracious.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett |
|
8030bb3
|
Excuse me,' he said. 'I know this is a personal question. But are you clinically insane?' 'Possible, but very unlikely. Why?
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |
|
c19fc3b
|
A squirrel, Ratatosk, lives in the branches of the world-tree. It takes gossip and messages from Nidhogg, the dread corpse-eater, to the eagle and back again. The squirrel tells lies to both of them, and takes joy in provoking anger.
|
|
|
Neil Gaiman |