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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 35125d6 | He was looking at Mr. Nancy, an old black man with a pencil moustache, in his check sports jacket and his lemon yellow gloves, riding a carousel lion as it rose and lowered, high in the air; and, at the same time, in the same place, he saw a jeweled spider as high as a horse, its eyes an emerald nebula, strutting, staring down at him; and simultaneously he was looking at an extraordinarily tall man with teak colored skin and three sets of a.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 23b9554 | Stories are, in one way or another, mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn't work. Like mirrors, stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in the darkness. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| bf92015 | I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. 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. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise and sheer blind luck. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 225130c | I feel like I'm in a world with its own sense of logic. Its own rules. Like when you're in a dream, and you know there are rules you mustn't break. Even if you don't know what they mean. I'm just going along with it, you know? | Neil Gaiman | ||
| cb8ea17 | You can take your gold, but afterwards, things are, things are . There is less beauty in a rainbow, less meaning in a sermon, less joy in a kiss...Less. | folklore morals | Neil Gaiman | |
| 7ef4731 | Been there, Remiel. Done that. Wore the T-Shirt, ate the burger, bought the original cast album, choreographed the legions of the damned and orchestrated the screaming. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 1e4016f | He had a hundred arms that broke into a hundred thousand fingers, and all of his fingers reached up into the sky. The weight of the sky was heavy on his shoulders. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 7d75c49 | The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored. For the most part it is uninspected, unimagined, unthought, a representation of the thing, and not the thing itself. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 6251019 | THE DAY THE SAUCERS CAME "That day, the saucer day the zombie day The Ragnarok and fairies day, the day the great winds came And snows, and the cities turned to crystal, the day All plants died, plastics dissolved, the day the Computers turned, the screens telling us we would obey, the day Angels, drunk and muddled, stumbled from the bars, And all the bells of London were sounded, the day Animals spoke to us in Assyrian, the Yeti day, .. | poetry | Neil Gaiman | |
| 054a14e | Ali izmedu sadasnjice i konacnog kraja prostire se Zivot. Nit mu je krenuo ususret, sirom otvorivsi ne samo oci nego i srce. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| d2f937a | If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe. Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you betray them with your tongue. Do not be jealous of your sister. Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut. Remember your n.. | instructions m-is-for-magic poem | Neil Gaiman | |
| fcf6138 | I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things collapsed. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I found joy in the things that made me happy. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| aac290e | It was as bad as the summer that her mother had taken the training wheels off Coraline's bicycle;but then, back then, in with all the cuts and scrapes (her knees had scabs on top of scabs) she had had a feeling of achievement. She was learning something, doing something she had not known how to do. Now she felt nothing but cold loss. She had failed the ghost children. She had failed her parents. She had failed herself, failed everything. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| cd35d5b | Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds. | bundle feuds gaiman mother prejudices rosie worries | Neil Gaiman | |
| 6547875 | I'll swap you my dad," I said. "Oh-oh," said my little sister." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 0094dc1 | Biggest case we've had here in five years was when Dan Schwartz got drunk and shot up his own trailer, then he went on the run, down Main Street, in his wheelchair, waving this darn shotgun, shouting that he would shoot anyone that got in his way, that no one would stop him from getting to the interstate. I think he was on his way to Washington to shoot the president. I still laugh whenever I think of Dan heading down the interstate in that.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 0789482 | that 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. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c775847 | Could be anyone. . I mean... it's like calling yourselves the People. It's what pretty much every race-name means. Except for Dalek. That means in Skaronian. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 158e381 | You want to know the future, love? Then wait: | Neil Gaiman | ||
| dd2b9d8 | 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; | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 19ac0fe | Sometimes I wonder if she transforms people into animals, or whether she finds the beast inside us, and frees it. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 358242e | 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. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| f78c773 | I feel dirty. I feel tarnished. I feel befouled. 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. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 0ca22bf | Scuse me," said a small and hairy voice in his ear, "but would you mind dreamin' a bit quieter? Your dreams is spillin' over into my dreams, and if there's one thing I've never been doin' with, it's dates. William the Conker, ten sixty-six, that's as far as I go, and I'd swap that for a dancing mouse." | dreams | Neil Gaiman | |
| 253291e | Laura made a great chili. She used lean meat, dark kidney beans, carrots cut small, a bottle or so of dark beer, and freshly sliced hot peppers. She would let the chili cook for a while, then add red wine, lemon juice and a pitch of fresh dill, and, finally, measure out and add her chili powders. On more than one occasion Shadow had tried to get her to show him how she made it: he would watch everything she did, from slicing the onions and .. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| bbeb527 | You don't pass or fail at being a person | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 1448132 | Most people do not notice other people. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| ab3d14b | She called for her fiance and told him not to take on so, and that they would still be married, even if he was but a prince and she a queen, and she chucked him beneath his pretty chin and kissed him until he smiled. | relationships | Neil Gaiman | |
| b93210d | The thing was white, and huge, and swollen. Monstrous, thought Coraline, but also miserable. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b386bcf | So be wise, because the world needs more wisdom, and if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2aedb7e | There are many for whom the lure of gold outweighs the beauty of a rainbow. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 587e3ab | The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only the State, and the People. - No, Monsieur Robespierre. There is much more than that. | myths stories | Neil Gaiman | |
| b4131a8 | You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself for many things. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 165e0fb | The abbot cleared his throat. "You are all very stupid people," he told them graciously, "and you do not know anything at all." | humor | Neil Gaiman | |
| a79791d | When angels go bad, Richard, they go worse than anyone. Remember, Lucifer used to be an angel. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 45cf044 | I wish I could purr, too. I would have purred then. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9ab54d1 | forgetfulness can sometimes bring freedom of a sort | neil-gaiman | Neil Gaiman | |
| cfe5b9a | When you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 11a9a0b | When I was four I believed everything, accepted everything, and was scared of nothing. Now I was eight, and I believed in what I could see and was scared of anything I couldn't. Scared of things in the darkness, of things invisible to see. | darkness fear knowledge unknown | Neil Gaiman | |
| c5b8ae4 | A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy.. | philosophy-of-life | Neil Gaiman | |
| 88cdfcf | Books are really places, make no mistake about that. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e0de8e8 | Some skills can be attained by education, and some by practice, and some by time. Those skills will come if you study. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| cad9f1c | Everything created has a beginning, Destiny of the Endless...as everything created has an end. | creation destiny ending grey-ladies sandman | Neil Gaiman | |
| b227323 | That," said Wednesday, driving off, "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. Worm food. At night, you're rubbing yourself against worm food. No offense meant." | Neil Gaiman |