Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (1996)

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She smiled again. "Do you like cat?" she said. "Yes," said Richard. "I quite like cats." Anaesthesia looked relieved. "Thigh?" she asked, "or breast?

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London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.

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Now me, said Mr. Vandemar. What number am I thinking of? I beg your pardon? What number am I thinking of? repeated Mr. Vandemar. It's between one and a lot, he added, helpfully.

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A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way.

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How old are you?" asked Door. Richard was pleased she had asked; he would never have dared. "As old as my tongue," said Hunter, primly, "and a little older than my teeth.

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I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.

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The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.

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The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.

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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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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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He tried to listen to the conversations going on at the table and he found that he could no longer concentrate on what anyone was saying and which was worse that he was not interested in any of what he was able to hear.

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Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?

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He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me." Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in a rough brick wall. "Mm," she agreed. "He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur.

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I have always felt, he said, that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final sanctuary of the terminally inept.

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The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way.

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He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.

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Richard wondered how the marquis managed to make being pushed around in a wheelchair look like a romantic and swashbuckling thing to do.

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Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.

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There was no moon but the night sky was a riot of crisp and glittering autumn stars. There were streetlights too and lights on buildings and on bridges which looked like earthbound stars and they glimmered repeated as they were reflected with the city in the night water of the Thames. It's fairyland thought Richard.

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For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would have been much, much worse.

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You've a good heart, she told him. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. Then she shook her head. But mostly, it's not.

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Mr. Vandemar showed them his teeth, demonstrating his sunny and delightful disposition. It was unquestionably the most horrible thing Richard had ever seen.

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Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his mind. It slipped into his lungs, behind his eyes, into his mouth...

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We have to get the... the thing I got... to the Angel. And then he'll tell Door about her family, and he'll tell me how to get home." Lamia looked at Hunter with delight. "And he can give you brains," she said, cheerfully, "and me a heart.

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The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.

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Richard opened his hand, and the key stared up at him from his palm. "By my crooked teeth," asked Richard, remembering, "who am I?

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