01c. 1960 ADRight," said Fat Charlie conversationally. "You realize, of course, that this means war." It was the traditional war cry of a rabbit when pushed too far.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
02c. 1960 ADIf you survive in battle, it is with Odin's grace, and if you fall, it is because he has betrayed you.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
03c. 1960 ADSometimes war is necessary to teach us the value of peace. Sometimes you need to learn the real value of diplomacy in avoiding war. And I'd rather my students learned those lessons on the playground than on the battlefield.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
04c. 1960 ADPeople think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
05c. 1960 ADWe wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
06c. 1960 ADIt occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
07c. 1960 ADAll that I did," she said, "everything I tried to do. All for nothing." Nothing is done entirely for nothing, said the fox of dreams. Nothing is wasted. You are older, and you have made decisions, and you are not the fox you were yesterday. Take what you have learned, and move on.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
08c. 1960 ADRecounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
09c. 1960 ADI move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
10c. 1960 ADFictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
12c. 1960 ADI walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
13c. 1960 ADThe bonds of family bind us up, support us, help us. And they are also a bond from which it is difficult, perhaps impossible to extricate oneself.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
14c. 1960 ADIt's oneiric, a beautiful, formless sequence of silver nitrate shadows, and when it ends I wonder what happened, and then I begin to rebuild it in my headNeil Gaiman / quote ↗
15c. 1960 ADWe knew that it would soon be over, and so we put it all into a poem, to tell the universe who we were, and why we were here, and what we said and did and thought and dreamed and yearned for. We wrapped our dreams into words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
16c. 1960 ADBecause it is the nature of Dreams, and ONLY of Dreams, to define Reality. Destiny is bound to existence. Death is limited by what she will or will not accept.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
17c. 1960 ADAdventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
18c. 1960 ADIt's certainly not too late to change to the winning side. But you know, you also have the freedom to stay just where you are. That's what it means to be an American. That's the miracle of America. Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
19c. 1960 ADNote for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
20c. 1960 ADSome people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I mean, the kind of brilliant ideas that change the whole world. Some people never have them at all... I get them two or three times a week.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
21c. 1960 ADWell?" said Loki. "What about you, Heimdall? Do you have any suggestions?""I do," said Heimdall. "But you won't like it."Thor banged his fist down upon the table. "It does not matter whether or not we like it," he said. "We are gods! There is nothing that any of us gathered here would not do to get back Mjollnir, the hammer of the gods. Tell us your idea, and if it is a good idea, we will like it.""You won't like it," said Heimdall."We will like it!" said Thor."Well," said Heimdall, "I think we should dress Thor as a bride. Have him put on the necklace of the Brisings. Have him wear a bridal crown. Stuff his dress so he looks like a woman. Veil his face. We'll have him wear keys that jingle, as women do, drape him with jewels -""I don't like it!" said Thor. "People will think... well, for a start they'll think I dress up in women's clothes. Absolutely out of the question. I don't like it. I am definitely not going to be wearing a bridal veil. None of us like this idea, do we? Terrible, terrible idea. I've got a beard. I can't shave off my beard.""Shut up, Thor," said Loki son of Laufey. "It's an excellent idea.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
22c. 1960 ADHe was cold, standing in a wood, talking to a big black bird who was currently brunching on Bambi.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
23c. 1960 ADThis was beyond a joke. This had moved beyond foolishness, slipped over the line into genuine 24 karat Jesus-Christ-I-fucked-up-bigtime territory.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
24c. 1960 ADThe house in the story is based on my friend Tori's house in Kinsale, Ireland, which is obviously not actually haunted, and the sound of people upstairs moving wardrobes around when you are downstairs there and alone is probably just something that old houses do when they think they are unobserved.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
