Neil Gaiman Quotes
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.
The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air--a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves.
I need to know how you did it it. I did it, said Sweeney, with the air of one confiding a huge secret, witch panache and style. That's how I did it.(Shadow & Mad Sweeney)
If you're doing it right... you should feel while you're doing it that you're revealing a little too much of yourself.
This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.
You're playing with fire, " she warned him."That's how I know I'm alive.
The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats, " it confided, "tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.
There are those who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one...
The ball of dark fur pressed itself into my chest, and I wished she was my kitten, and knew that she was not.
Our word Tragedy comes from the Greek, tragos-ode: “The song of the goat.” Anybody who has ever heard a goat attempt to sing will know why.
Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what's wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud
She herself had short red hair and a face which was not so much freckled as one big freckle with occasional areas of white
What my business partner says is, if the Lord gives you a talent or a skill, you have the obligation to use it as best as you can. Don’t you agree?
The marquis stared at Richard, openly amused. "What a refreshing mind you have, young man, " he said. "There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?
CORALINE'S STORYTHERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END.
What, " asked Mr Croup, "do you want?""What, " asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?""Dead things, " suggested Mr Vandemar. "Extra teeth.
She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.
The lovelorn came, too. The alone. The lunatics-they were brought here, sometimes. Got their name from the moon, it was only fair the moon had a chance to fix things.
We think that tomorrow, unless we surrender, they may drop the moon on us." "You're joking.""Wish I was.
A plop of rain hit me on the face, one of those early raindrops that turns up five minutes ahead of all the others to let you know it's time to get indoors.
I'm bored, " she said."Learn how to tap-dance, " he suggested, without turning around.
Gods are great, " said Atsula, slowly, as if she were imparting a great secret. "But the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return...
Gods are great, " said Atsula, slowly, as if she were comprehending a great secret. "But the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return...
Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it.
Listen, gods die when they are forgotten. People too. But the land's still here. The good places, and the bad. The land isn't going anywhere. And neither am I.
Google can bring you back 100, 000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind, /Now slip, now slide, now move unseen, /Above, beneath, betwixt, between.
Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.
I do not remember asking adults about anything, except as a last resort.
If he didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset him, ” Liza tells Bod.
...Come home, Bod.' ‘I think . . . I said things to Silas. He’ll be angry.’ ‘If he didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset him, ’ was all she said.
The little mutton-chopped man interrupted them to point out that in his opinion good was not the avoidance of evil, but something more positive than that: it was making the world a better place.
I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work.
We are small but we are manyWe are many we are smallWe were here before you roseWe will be here when you fall
We have eyes and we have nervesesWe have tails we have teethYou'll all get what you deservesesWhen we rise from underneath.
We have teeth and we have tailsWe have tails we have eyesWe were here before you fellWe will be here when you rise.
You are young, and in love, " said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.
If there is a moral to this part of the story, and I distrust morals in the same way that I distrust beginnings, it is simply this: know that with which you deal.
Oh ... My twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And I give you bowls of ice-cream.
I'm a mother, " said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what I know.
