Neil Gaiman Quotes

Bod shrugged. So? he said. It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.

Books are really places, make no mistake about that.

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories,’ said Lord Dunsany.

But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?

But she knew also that it would not be wise to begin her life with Tristan by arguing with his mother.

Calling cats, it confided, tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.

Diggory's Dyke was a deep cut between two chalk downs-high, green hills, where a thin layer of green grass and reddish earth covered the chalk, and there was scarcely soil enough for trees. The Dyke l...

Does it work? Are they happier dead? Sometimes. Mostly, no. It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you g...

Don't start anything you're not prepared to finish.

Every hour wounds. The last one kills.

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all g...

Fair enough, said Thor. What’s the price? Freya’s hand in marriage. He just wants her hand? asked Thor hopefully. She had two hands, after all, and might be persuaded to give up one of them without to...

Fat Charlie blew his nose. I never knew I had a brother, he said.I did, said Spider. I always meant to look you up, but I got distracted. You know how it is.Not really.Things came up.What kind of thin...

Few of us now have seen the stars as folk saw them then—our cities and towns cast too much light into the night—but, from the village of Wall, the stars were laid out like worlds or like ideas, uncoun...

Fuck you, said Czernobog. Fuck you and fuck your mother and fuck the fucking horse you fucking rode in on.

Furthermore, it goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise, in this story are fictional or used in a fictional context. Only the gods are real.

Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

God who knows all things, I have no prayer book and I do not know any prayers by heart. But you know all the prayers. You are God. So this is what I am going to do. I am going to say the alphabet, and...

Goodbyes are overrated.

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