01c. 1960 ADIt is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with theseNeil Gaiman / quote ↗
02c. 1960 ADYou know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
03c. 1960 ADLettie shrugged. “Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
04c. 1960 ADThere was a moment of hesitation, and then her mouth opened against his, and her tongue slid into his mouth, and he was, under the strange stars, utterly, irrevocably lost.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
05c. 1960 ADAll your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
07c. 1960 ADBeing a geological formation gives you a lot of time to think. Also, I subscribed to a number of learned journals.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
08c. 1960 ADHave you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life… You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" or "how very perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
09c. 1960 ADThe abbot cleared his throat. "You are all very stupid people," he told them graciously, "and you do not know anything at all.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
10c. 1960 ADCHORONZON "I am anti-life, the beast of judgement. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, Gods, worlds... of everything. And what will you be then, Dreamlord?"MORPHEUS "I am hope.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
11c. 1960 ADWe've had our ups and downs since then, but that's what families have, ups and downs.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
12c. 1960 ADIt has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
14c. 1960 ADUrsula Monkton smiled, and the lightnings wreathed and writhed about her. She was power incarnate, standing in the crackling air. She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
15c. 1960 ADI saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
17c. 1960 ADThere was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
18c. 1960 ADI think all - or the ones thet I've run into - tend to have a faintly tenuous relationship with the real world, because so much is going on on the inside. They may be geniuses but they often need someone to walk around holding a string. They're sort of balloons, bobbing around.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
19c. 1960 ADBut how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?""Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking around the world. You start out walking away from something and end up coming back to it.""Small world," said Coraline."It's big enough for her," said the cat. "Spider's webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
20c. 1960 ADBefore that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
21c. 1960 ADYou don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
22c. 1960 ADAs sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
23c. 1960 ADPeople talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
