Neil Gaiman Quotes

The fun comes in telling them yourself—something I warmly encourage you to do, you person reading this. Read the stories in this book, then make them your own,

The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then.

The important thing about songs is that they're just like stories. They don't mean a damn unless there's people listenin' to them.

The limeade was very interesting. It didn't taste anything like limes. It tasted bright green and vaguely chemical.

The man with the dark hair sighs, and explains that his friend won’t be coming back, and thus she won’t be paid for her time, or for her trouble. And then, seeing the hurt in her eyes, and taking pity...

The men in the room suddenly realized that they didn’t want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance...

The monsters in our cupboards and our minds are always there in the darkness, like mould beneath the floorboards and behind the wallpaper, and there is so much darkness, an inexhaustible supply of dar...

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.

There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles in amber, she explained. There’s a lot of time in London, and it has to go somewhere—it doesn’t all...

There are sneaking,creeping, crumplingnoises coming frominside the walls.

There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.

There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of unhatched chicks,

There is no end. It is simply the end of the old times, Loki, and the beginning of the new times. Rebirth always follows death.

There is nothing to be frightened of, said the Rajah. Very few tigers are man-eaters.But I am, said the tiger.You might be lying, said the Rajah.I might be, said the tiger. But I'm not.

There must be a Hell. A place for demons. A place for the damned. Hell is Heaven's reflection. Heaven's shadow. They define each other. There must be a Hell for without Hell, Heaven has no meaning.--R...

There was something empty at the bottom of all her words.

There were things Thor did when something went wrong. The first thing he did was ask himself if what had happened was Loki’s fault. Thor pondered. He did not believe that even Loki would have dared to...

There's a but, isn't there? said Coraline. I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.

There,' said Wednesday, 'is one who does not have the faith and will not have the fun. Chesterton. Pagan indeed. So. Shall we go out onto the street, Easter my dear, and repeat the exercise? Find out...

There’s a brotherhood of people who read and who care about books.