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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2849708 | I opened the door. "Don't do that," said a green, globby person. "You'll let the space-time continuum in." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c1d1e10 | All the dinosaurs have gone off into the stars, leaving the world to mammals. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| de270f4 | There was a girl, and her uncle sold her, wrote Mr. Ibis in his perfect copperplate handwriting. That is the tale; the rest is detail. There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have heard it before, and we cannot allow ourselves to feel it too deeply. We build a shell around it like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth p.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 59aa35a | It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e9806d2 | There were three of them there, then, and Amabella was introducing Bod and he was shaking hands and saying, "Charmed, I'm sure," because he could greet people politely over nine hundred years of changing manners." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e3b4c57 | 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." | ghost graveyard josiah-worthington neil-gaiman | Neil Gaiman | |
| 785fb5c | You're going back?" asked Bod. Things that had been immutable were changing. "You're really leaving? But. You're my guardian." "I was you're guardian. But you are old enough to guard yourself. I have other things to protect." | melancholy sad | Neil Gaiman | |
| 0daca47 | And why does he talk so funny? Doesn't he mean squashed tomatoes? I don't think that they had tomatoes when he comes from, said Bod. And that's just how they talk then. | time | Neil Gaiman | |
| 79de131 | They say that each night, when the duties of state permit, she climbs, on foot, and limps, alone, to the highest peak of the palace, where she stands for hour after hour, seeming not to notice the cold peak winds. 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 | ||
| 783c539 | Yes, I was scared of the Daleks and the Zarbi and the rest, but I was taking other, stranger, more important lessons away from my Saturday tea time serial. For a start, I became infected by the idea that there are an infinite number of worlds only a foot step away. And another part of the meme was this- some things are bigger on the inside than they are on the outside. And perhaps some people are bigger on the inside than they are on the ou.. | science-fiction | Neil Gaiman | |
| be548f4 | The ball of dark fur pressed itself into my chest, and I wished she was my kitten, and knew that she was not. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| f80511c | Can I hug you?" "Do you want to?"said Bod. "Yes." "Well then."He thought for a moment."I don't mind if you do." "My hands won't go through you or anything?You're really there?" "You won't go through me,"he told her,and she threw her arms around him and squeezed him so tightly he could hardly breathe." | graveyard-book scarlett | Neil Gaiman | |
| a9792b6 | America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed. --AGNES REPPLIER, TIMES AND TENDENCIES | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 7eae607 | How old are you?" "About fifteen, I think. Though I still feel the same as I always did," Bod said, but Mother Slaughter interrupted, "And 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." | change | Neil Gaiman | |
| 32f3e9d | I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality I knew was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger. I saw the world from above and below. I saw that there were patterns and gates and paths beyond the real. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| cb74749 | My parents had told me that I would not really die, not the real me: that nobody really died, when they died; that my kitten and the opal miner had just taken new bodies and would be back again, soon enough. | die reincarnation reincarnation-quotes | Neil Gaiman | |
| 8fc4376 | 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. | marriage | Neil Gaiman | |
| 931a9d4 | You are alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 6369172 | She's not dead. You didn't kill her, nor did the hunger birds, although they did their best to get to you through her. She's been given her ocean. One day, in its own time, the ocean will give her back. I thought of corpses and of skeletons with pearls for eyes. I thought of mermaids with tails that flicked when they moved, like my goldfishes' tails had flicked before my goldfish had stopped moving, to lie, belly up, like Lettie, on the top.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 6aad0c3 | Why does she want me to stay here with her?' 'She wants something to love, I think,' said the cat. 'Something that isn't her. She might want something to eat as well. It's hard to tell with creatures like that. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e8032e9 | My hands shook, but the milk did not touch the milk, and the Universe did not end. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 8efb021 | It's just that I get distracted, and I get Lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days.... ....When, you know, I just want to Hide or Scream or Bleed or something, and.....All that... | Neil Gaiman | ||
| f8120df | I know a charm that can cure pain and sickness, and lift the grief from the heart of the grieving. I know a charm that will heal with a touch. I know a charm that will turn aside the weapons of an enemy. I know another charm to free myself from all bonds and locks. A fifth charm: I can catch an arrow in flight and take no harm from it. A sixth: spells sent to hurt me will hurt only the sender. A seventh charm I know: I can quench a fire sim.. | fantasy gods neil-gaiman | Neil Gaiman | |
| 277cca0 | Each insult is woven with just enough truth to make it wound. | loki truth | Neil Gaiman | |
| c8e8244 | You're as plain as the nose on your face," said Mr. Pennyworth. "And your nose is remarkably obvious. As is the rest of your face, young man. As are you. For the sake of all that is holy, empty your mind. Now. You are an empty alleyway. You are a vacant doorway. You are nothing. Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody." | graveyard-book nothing | Neil Gaiman | |
| 1ead3c9 | 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. If you see what I mean. | the-graveyard-book | Neil Gaiman | |
| 65f0f5f | I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 12dcc3d | Dinner was wonderful. There was a joint of beef, with roast potatoes, golden-crisp on the outside and soft and white inside, buttered greens I did not recognize, although I think now that they might have been nettles, toasted carrots all blackened and sweet (I did not think that I liked cooked carrots, so I nearly did not eat one but I was brave, and I tried it, and I liked it, and was disappointed in boiled carrots for the rest of my child.. | description-wow descriptive-prose details food | Neil Gaiman | |
| 58107d0 | There is nothing down here,' said the pale thing indistinctly. 'Nothing but dust and damp and forgetting. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 54fba82 | Richard paused for a moment. If ever, he decided, they made disorganization an Olympic sport, he could be disorganized for Britain. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 636d2f3 | Rainie, mythologies take longer to die than people believe. They linger on in a kind of dream country that affects all of you. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 072f492 | The really dangerous people believe that they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 6820cdd | Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from which to view the world. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c19e4eb | One day every soldier in the empire has to shower in the blood of your sacrificial bull. The next they don't even remember your birthday. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 5b1eb15 | Personally--and this is speaking as a subscriber to Scientific American, here--I feel very sorry for the professionals whenever they find another confusing skull, something that belonged to the wrong sort of people, or whenever they find statues or artifacts that confuse them--for they'll talk about the odd, but they won't talk about the impossible, which is where I feel sorry for them, for as soon as something becomes impossible it slipsli.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 79eab62 | I think all geniuses - or the ones thet I've run into - tend to have a faintly tenuous relationship with the real world, because so much is going on on the inside. They may be geniuses but they often need someone to walk around holding a string. They're sort of balloons, bobbing around. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 4d1c7c2 | Fat Charlie had had no real liking for the police, but until now, he had still managed to cling to a fundamental trust in the natural order of things, a conviction that there was some kind of power--a Victorian might have thought of it as Providence--that ensured that the guilty would be punished while the innocent would be set free. This faith had collapsed in the face of recent events and had been replaced by the suspicion that he would s.. | justice wrongfully-accused | Neil Gaiman | |
| 2486165 | It's funny. I thought she'd live through anything." Charlie said, "Me too. I figured even if there was a nuclear war, it would still leave radioactive cockroaches and your mum." | mother-in-law stepmother | Neil Gaiman | |
| 2c23f44 | The Sky was red, but not warm red of a sunset. This was an angry, glowering red, the colour of an infected wound. | morbidity | Neil Gaiman | |
| cd2e4a5 | 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." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 71c5c8b | Fat Charlie saw one thing with his eyes, and he saw something else with his mind, and in the gulf between the two things, madness waited. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| f29dff2 | You people talk about the living and the dead as if they were two mutually exclusive categories. As if you can not have a river that is also a road, or a song that is also a color. | neil-gaiman | Neil Gaiman | |
| 0eb798d | I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something. So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobo.. | blog neil-gaiman new-year | Neil Gaiman | |
| 891f5c3 | Slushai, Lio, shche ti kazha k'de ti e greshkata... ti prosto si zabravil, che shche doide chas, shche doide den, v koito vsichki nie shche triabva da izlezem ot tova neshcho [Mashina na shchastieto] i da se v'rnem otnovo k'm mr'snite chinii i razkhv'rlianite legla. Dokato si v'tre v mashinata, zalez't trae vechno, v'zdukh't e nasiten s ukhaniia, vremeto e toplo. Vsichko, koeto ne iskash da sv'rshi, ne sv'rshva. No nav'nka detsata chakat da.. | Ray Bradbury |