Neil Gaiman Quotes

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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.

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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.

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How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave." "Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline. "Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back.

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You're also finding out something as you read vitally important for making your way in the world. And it's this: The world doesn't have to be like this. Things can be different.

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For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar.

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Daisy looked up at him with the kind of expression that Jesus might have given someone who had just explained that he was probably allergic to bread and fishes, so could He possibly do him a quick chicken salad...

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The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth as oiled silk, "who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one - after all, it permits the occasional funny little running snack to escape, from time to time. How often does your dinner get to escape?

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I just want you to know,' said the girl, coldly, 'that whoever you are and whatever you intend with me, I shall give you no aid of any kind, nor shall I assist you, and I shall do whatever is in my power to frustrate your plans and devices.' And then she added, with feeling, 'Idiot.

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I remembered that, and, remembering that, I remembered everything.

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I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist deploys his paints upon his palette.

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I knowed a man in Paphlagonia who'd swallow a live snake every morning, when he got up. He used to say, he was certain of one thing, that nothing worse would happen to him all day. 'Course they made him eat a bowlful of hairy centipedes before they hung him, so maybe that claim was a bit presumptive.

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I am remarkably likeable. Few people have ever been as likeable as I am. There is, frankly, no end to my likeability. People gather together in public assemblies to discuss how much they like me. I have several awards, and a small medal from a small country in South America which pays tribute both to how much I am liked and my general all around wonderfulness. I don't have it on me, of course. I keep my medals in my sock drawer.

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If not for Death, they'd be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning — a boundary beyond which the living cannot cross.

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He stared down at the golden curls of the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness. "You know," he concluded, after a while, "I think he actually looks like an Adam.

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The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.

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The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

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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.

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None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.

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You made peace, said the buffalo man. You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were here—and the people who worshiped them were here—because it suits us that they are here. But we can change our minds. And perhaps we will.

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

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Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

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And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever.

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There was nowhere they could have gone and they went there anyway.

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

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Also, in my bedroom, nobody minded if I kept the hall door half-open, allowing in enough light that I was not scared of the dark, and, just as important, allowing me to read secretly, after my bedtime, using the dim hallway light to read by, if I needed to. I always needed to.

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And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...

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

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

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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

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He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

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