KnowYourQuotes
(｡･ω･｡)ﾉ♡ try 1ClickPost.com paste text to share free

What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?"
The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a glitter of his old self, he replied, "Live long enough, Old Bailey, and you can find out for yourself.


Neil Gaiman

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash...
HOLLY BLACK He was back to his old self,
ADAM DUNN Mooooon!” said the Ogre. “Tranquility …” Then he pointed at the full moon. “Neil Armstrong...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN 'Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent...
GEORGE ARNOLD For a moment, he looks back at me, and his farewell is in his smile. Then he turns to the stars. BETH REVIS What were you thinking about just
now while you were looking out the window?" To his surprise, ...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT LEONATO
Well, then, go you into hell?

BEATRICE
No, but to the gate; and there w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This is what Achilles will feel like when he is old. And then I remembered: he will never be old.
MADELINE MILLER Why?" I asked softly. The word was carried away on the wind, but he heard.
"Because I want you....
RICHELLE MEAD He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then...
FRANK KIMMEL You love me?" he asked suddenly and, at his question, my stomach flipped then twisted.
"Yes." KRISTEN ASHLEY He raised his hand and said his plan was to have his 14-year-old grandson take it over. But he hadn'...
STEVE SCHWARTZ I've never seen anything like it. The man was flat on the ground with his hands behind his back. (Ba...
CHARLES GREENE He raised his hand and said his plan was to have his 14-year-old grandson take it over. But he hadn'...
STEVE SCHWARTZ A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolv...
WENDY MASS The way yogurt works is you take the old yogurt culture and you put it in milk. You have to put enou...
JOHN MACKEY But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime af...
STEPHEN KING You think way too much of your dick."
"So do you," he replied with a smile. And God damn it. I ...
KARINA HALLE He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.
UNKNOWN He whipped out his sheet, then pulled it over himself and wrapped it tightly around his face like an...
JAMES DASHNER Well he didn't treat my mother very well. He did some horrible things."
"Like..." I hesitated. ...
RICHELLE MEAD You’re stuck,” I blurted, his grin died and he blinked.
“Come again?”
I swallowed,...
KRISTEN ASHLEY My friend Bailey is looking at me with tears in her eyes and a smile of pure joy. She sees me, the r...
CLARA KENSIE He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.
BILL DANA The Old Man and Death An old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the fa...
AESOP My grandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily. "He would have called you 'Sh...
PATRICIA BRIGGS He would pull out his old potato cutter and his iron skillet. Everybody just loved them.
SUSAN ZIEGER Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman wit...
ELVIS MITCHELL How long?"

His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest."

For ever?"

MAGGIE STIEFVATER Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN This boy needs a dog.
What makes you say that?
He needs someone or something to play with ...
KENT HARUF When my three-year-old son opened the birthday gift from his grandmother, he discovered a water pist...
UNKNOWN He looked to me like he regained his old form. His velocity was up, his command was really good. He'...
SAM PERLOZZO Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was c...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It was a bitch living with your old English teacher, especially when your old English teacher wasn...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig....
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") Loving you, Kellan, is so easy, it's effortless."

His smile matched mine, then I frowned ...
S.C. STEPHENS There is something poignantly pathetic in the picture of this valiant fighter—this arrogant ja-sag...
H.L. MENCKEN Morrie.. had developed his own culture - long before he got sick. He read books to find new ideas fo...
MITCH ALBOM About the library," he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the...
LAURA WHITCOMB ... Then he did a strange thing. He lifted my hand to his lips and kissed my palm."
"I died. T...
JULIE ANNE PETERS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...
SAUL BELLOW He pulled out his wallet and showed me photos of himself with long hair, ... He told me he had been ...
HAROLD BROWN He pulled out his wallet and showed me photos of himself with long hair, ... He told me he had been ...
HAROLD BROWN Then I made a stupid mistake and looked up at him. His eyes met mine, and for a moment, his face was...
JULIE KAGAWA THE OLD MAN IN THE CORNER

The man in the corner
Is dying with words
He's crying...
SUZY KASSEM If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally re...
MARILYN MANSON Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smil...
RICHELLE MEAD A slow smile spread across his lips, and he threaded his fingers through mine. "I can see why I like...
JUS ACCARDO Dad?" Jesus asked.
"Yes, son?" God replied.
"Do we look like man or does he look like us?"...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Did he just rip out the engine?" I asked.
"Yes", Saiman said. "And now he is demolishing the Ma...
ILONA ANDREWS The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on t...
LAURIE LEE Peter..."
He straightened, his back to her like a wall. Then, slowly, he turned his face toward...
SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in h...
JAMES HOGG He'd thrust his chin out and make gulping noises. Then he would take his fist and punch his chin. It...
KELLY SHARIFF A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ Does it hurt now?" he asked, his tone rough and seductive.
"No." She shook her head again and s...
EDEN SUMMERS He is a genuine, good guy, one of the best teammates that you can have. He lights up a clubhouse wit...
KEVIN MILLAR You could have knocked ... Or, you know, announced your entrance like they do on Downton Abbey KRISTA RITCHIE Come here. Then we'll talk."
That sounds like a bad idea to her. "I can hear you fine right her...
NENIA CAMPBELL A five year old was discussing Noah's Ark with Grandma. Grandma asked, "How many animals went into ...
UNKNOWN I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE A boy, frustrated with all the rules he had to follow, asked his father, "Dad, how soon will I be ol...
UNKNOWN Jonnie Goodboy Tyler. Conqueror of Psychlos.' Brown Limper spat on the bill.
He suddenly seized...
L. RON HUBBARD He's a clever little thing, isn't he?"
She leaned in to drop a kiss on the kitten's soft head, ...
MICHELLE ZINK You know you're getting old when you look at a beautiful 19-year-old girl and you find yourself thin...
GERMAN PROVERB He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that wa...
JOHN BELLAIRS Ah, now,” crooned Adam, “here we are, then.” With infinite care, as though he were handling a ...
KRISTEN CALLIHAN [Minho] pulled one of his knives from a pocket and, without missing a beat, cut a big piece of ivy o...
JAMES DASHNER I saw a picture of you and Vincent in a 1968 newspaper that said you died in a fire," I said, turnin...
AMY PLUM Brett was phenomenal today. The day before his 36th birthday, he looked like a 22-year-old out there...
AARON RODGERS First she starts out kind of nice and then she gets a little revengeful, and then she's back to her ...
HEATHER LOCKLEAR As you step into your limitless self, you might be confronted with old habits and patterns that are ...
DEBBIE FORD Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"

It was remembered afterwards that ...
CHARLES DICKENS He wanted his mother with the fiery need of a five-year-old lost at Disneyland.
J.P. BARNABY I pulled my chair up to the table and Alex sat down, following suit, unable to guard a smile from br...
SHAWN KIRSTEN MARAVEL Wo wei ni xie de,” he said, as he raised the violin to his left shoulder, tucking it under his chi...
CASSANDRA CLARE Grow up, Bailey."

"That is precisely what I'm doing," Bailey says. "I don't care if you d...
ERIN MORGENSTERN Kaylee giggled as he tunneled up inside her sleeve.
Out popped his head for a quick look, then ...
MELINDA K. TROTTER But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?"
I nodded into his shirt.
"Gives you an ide...
JOHN GREEN I have peanut M&M's up there."
"Not my style"
"Raisinets."
"Feh."
"Sam Adams...
J.R. WARD Then Old Age and Experience, hand in hand,Lead him to death, and make him understand,After a search ...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) He stopped. She heard the intake of his breath. “You are my country, Desdemona.” Yearning, harsh...
CONNIE BROCKWAY So you'll teach me?" Val asked.

Ravus nodded agin. "I will make you as terrible as you de...
HOLLY BLACK Dad!" Jesus yelled.
"Yes, son," God said.
"That star's light just went out," Jesus told hi...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Jules lips quivered, and I feared she was about to cry. Then she asked, “He bit off more than he c...
LAURA KREITZER Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long e...
GROUCHO MARX What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU A person of little knowledge
Grows old as a plough-ox grows old.
His fleshes increases; ANONYMOUS I whispered, 'I am too young,' and then, 'I am old enough'; wherefore I threw a penny to find out if...
W.B. YEATS Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long e...
DON MARQUIS He was signing a lot of autographs and doing a lot of interviews. But when he finally came out of th...
KEVIN KELLY Hi" she said.
He gave her the sexiest crooked smile. "Hi." He stepped into her space, both his ...
LAURA KAYE As he was
forced to tell his father more than once, “I said I’d fight for my mother’s
G.A. AIKEN He was back to his old form.
BRIAN BOYLE I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look for...
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look f...
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING My grandfather took me and my brother to the roof of his house, ... He took out his rifle and he ble...
DEEPAK CHOPRA Death is like an old dog. He always knows when you are at his door.
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH

More Neil Gaiman

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?
NEIL GAIMAN So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning...
NEIL GAIMAN And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into ...
NEIL GAIMAN We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things...
NEIL GAIMAN You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.
NEIL GAIMAN Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
NEIL GAIMAN That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
NEIL GAIMAN Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or w...
NEIL GAIMAN Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell u...
NEIL GAIMAN They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one...
NEIL GAIMAN I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by weari...
NEIL GAIMAN It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning,...
NEIL GAIMAN Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.
NEIL GAIMAN I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got ev...
NEIL GAIMAN Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and i...
NEIL GAIMAN Oh, he'll help us whether he wants to or not. I told the truth. I would not kill him. The death-curs...
NEIL GAIMAN We are all improved by the glow of memory.
NEIL GAIMAN There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the...
NEIL GAIMAN I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.
NEIL GAIMAN All around me darkness gathers,
Fading is the sun that shone,
We must speak of other mat...
NEIL GAIMAN She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you k...
NEIL GAIMAN Does it make you feel big to make a little boy cry?
NEIL GAIMAN There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they we...
NEIL GAIMAN It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no cl...
NEIL GAIMAN Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the stronge...
NEIL GAIMAN You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only...
NEIL GAIMAN I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It w...
NEIL GAIMAN The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.
NEIL GAIMAN I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, ...
NEIL GAIMAN Proper bread was white, and pre-sliced, and tasted like almost nothing: that was the point.
NEIL GAIMAN Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
NEIL GAIMAN Even nothing cannot last forever.
NEIL GAIMAN You know what happens when you dream of falling? Sometimes you wake up.
Sometimes the fall kil...
NEIL GAIMAN Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? ...
NEIL GAIMAN Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.
NEIL GAIMAN And all the time we spent in this place would fade and vanish, like a dawn dream on waking that colo...
NEIL GAIMAN I think all geniuses - or the ones thet I've run into - tend to have a faintly tenuous relationship ...
NEIL GAIMAN It is selfish to love people and expect them to love you back.
NEIL GAIMAN Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose ...
NEIL GAIMAN Do not lose hope - what you seek will be found.
NEIL GAIMAN You might have loved me, if you had known me. If you had ever known my mind. If you would have walke...
NEIL GAIMAN I try to talk to you, but I don't know what to say. I am afraid you don't want me to say anything. S...
NEIL GAIMAN exists for him chiefly as a body in a sequence of hotel rooms.
NEIL GAIMAN So whenever we come together to work together it's because it's fun and because we want to.
NEIL GAIMAN I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to wor...
NEIL GAIMAN He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in pac...
NEIL GAIMAN I think . . . I said things to Silas. He'll be angry.'

'If he didn't care about you, you ...
NEIL GAIMAN Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.
NEIL GAIMAN Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now mo...
NEIL GAIMAN You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a ...
NEIL GAIMAN You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imag...
NEIL GAIMAN It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn ...
NEIL GAIMAN Somebody would say, 'Can you do us an article about big, bodice-ripping, blockbusting romance novels...
NEIL GAIMAN I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.
NEIL GAIMAN No, look, there's a blue box. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywher...
NEIL GAIMAN I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of start to see cracks in everything. I'm convinced tha...
NEIL GAIMAN He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and...
NEIL GAIMAN In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's ...
NEIL GAIMAN There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the rava...
NEIL GAIMAN I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.
NEIL GAIMAN Fat Charlie wasn't sure that he liked freedom, ... There was too much open air involved.
NEIL GAIMAN Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere...
NEIL GAIMAN This isn't about what is . . . it's about what people think is. It's all imaginary anyway. Th...
NEIL GAIMAN The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.'
'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow...
NEIL GAIMAN Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a f...
NEIL GAIMAN People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take respons...
NEIL GAIMAN I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stol...
NEIL GAIMAN I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things ...
NEIL GAIMAN Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to k...
NEIL GAIMAN Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to hims...
NEIL GAIMAN The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.
NEIL GAIMAN It is only a gesture," he said, turning back to Shadow. "But gestures mean everything. The death of ...
NEIL GAIMAN I knowed a man in Paphlagonia who'd swallow a live snake every morning, when he got up. He used to s...
NEIL GAIMAN So, having found a lady, could you not have come to her aid, or left her alone? Why drag her into yo...
NEIL GAIMAN While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not ...
NEIL GAIMAN He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, p...
NEIL GAIMAN As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morn...
NEIL GAIMAN I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I...
NEIL GAIMAN You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special ab...
NEIL GAIMAN We have eyes and we have nerveses
We have tails we have teeth
You'll all get what you dese...
NEIL GAIMAN You have a very open relationship with your fans."

"Yes. We have an open relationship. Ob...
NEIL GAIMAN If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. ...
NEIL GAIMAN Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to ...
NEIL GAIMAN Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.
NEIL GAIMAN Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, ...
NEIL GAIMAN You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.
NEIL GAIMAN I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of t...
NEIL GAIMAN Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to ...
NEIL GAIMAN Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is...
NEIL GAIMAN It was love, I knew, and it tasted like champagne in my mind.
NEIL GAIMAN I saw her chewing gum, when I was thirteen, and I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.
NEIL GAIMAN When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are s...
NEIL GAIMAN Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.
NEIL GAIMAN As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.
NEIL GAIMAN . . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories.
I liked that. Books were safer than oth...
NEIL GAIMAN Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything...
NEIL GAIMAN That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And...
NEIL GAIMAN Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She ...
NEIL GAIMAN Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.
NEIL GAIMAN I remembered that, and, remembering that, I remembered everything.
NEIL GAIMAN Rebirth always follows death.
NEIL GAIMAN Being a grown up is highly over rated. Just be an author.
NEIL GAIMAN You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less.
NEIL GAIMAN One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.
NEIL GAIMAN All that I did," she said, "everything I tried to do. All for nothing."

Nothing is done ...
NEIL GAIMAN But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire...
NEIL GAIMAN I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
NEIL GAIMAN I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.
NEIL GAIMAN Well?" said Loki. "What about you, Heimdall? Do you have any suggestions?"
"I do," said Heimdal...
NEIL GAIMAN Loki was trying to look serious, but even so, he was smiling at the corners of his mouth. It was not...
NEIL GAIMAN Cease your weeping!" he said. "It is I, Loki, here to rescue you!"
Idunn glared at him with red...
NEIL GAIMAN There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles ...
NEIL GAIMAN The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.
NEIL GAIMAN He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me....
NEIL GAIMAN I'm going to go home. Everything is going to be normal again. Boring again. Wonderful again.
NEIL GAIMAN Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.
NEIL GAIMAN Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now an...
NEIL GAIMAN If you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you’d be wrong. He’d be the other one. O...
NEIL GAIMAN You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer Show p...
NEIL GAIMAN La persona más valiente que conozco, y eres mi amigo. Me importa un pimiento que seas imaginario
NEIL GAIMAN You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.
NEIL GAIMAN People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It take...
NEIL GAIMAN But," expostulated Josiah Worthington. "But. A human child. A living child. I mean. I mean, I mean. ...
NEIL GAIMAN I make things up and write them down.
NEIL GAIMAN M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them...
NEIL GAIMAN I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget t...
NEIL GAIMAN There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, ...
NEIL GAIMAN She's as old as the hills, evil as a snake, all malevolence and magic and death.
NEIL GAIMAN You wouldn't have to wash," said Brian, whose parents forced him to wash a great deal more than he t...
NEIL GAIMAN Don't start anything you're not prepared to finish.
NEIL GAIMAN In fact, the only things in the flat Crowley devoted any personal attention to were the houseplants....
NEIL GAIMAN We'll win, of course," he said.
"You don't want that," said the demon.
"Why not, pray?...
NEIL GAIMAN All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the r...
NEIL GAIMAN Sister Mary chose that moment to come in with the tea. Satanist or not, she'd also found a plate and...
NEIL GAIMAN According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea.
NEIL GAIMAN I'm Jill Dumpty."
"So your brother was Humpty Dumpty?"
"And he didn't fall off that wall, ...
NEIL GAIMAN You’re playing with fire,” she warned him. “That’s how I know I’m alive,
NEIL GAIMAN Nosotros escuchábamos a los Adverts y a los Jam, a los Stranglers, los Clash y los Sex Pistols. Aun...
NEIL GAIMAN Por muy lejos que te vayas, nunca podrás huir de ti mismo.
NEIL GAIMAN È come quando c’è chi crede di essere felice andando a vivere da qualche altra parte, ma poi imp...
NEIL GAIMAN 7 Somewhere
NEIL GAIMAN Someone had once told her that if you look up at the sky from the bottom of a mine shaft, even in th...
NEIL GAIMAN Thank you,” said the dog.
NEIL GAIMAN Spiders’ webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.’ Coraline
NEIL GAIMAN Coraline sighed. ‘You really don’t understand, do you?’ she said. ‘I don’t want whatever I...
NEIL GAIMAN Stay here with us,” said the voice from the figure at the end of the room. “We will listen to yo...
NEIL GAIMAN The air was alive with yellow wasps. We must have stepped on a wasps' nest in a rotten branch as we ...
NEIL GAIMAN In the flat above Coraline’s, under the roof, was a crazy old man with a big mustache. He told Cor...
NEIL GAIMAN I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got ...
NEIL GAIMAN You people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't ne...
NEIL GAIMAN It was true: the other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon ...
NEIL GAIMAN Coraline's father stopped working and made them all dinner.

Coraline was disgusted. "Dadd...
NEIL GAIMAN She said, ‘You know that I love you.’ And, despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true: the ot...
NEIL GAIMAN Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she had met made any sense. She sometimes wondered who th...
NEIL GAIMAN No one had hugged her like that since she had retired from the theater.
NEIL GAIMAN Cats don't have shoulders, not like people do. But the cat shrugged, in one smooth movement that sta...
NEIL GAIMAN Realmente no lo entiendes, ¿verdad?. No quiero tener todo lo que deseo. Nadie lo quiere, no de verd...
NEIL GAIMAN It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back agai...
NEIL GAIMAN It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a hou...
NEIL GAIMAN Coraline went over to the window and watched the rain come down. It wasn't the kind of rain you coul...
NEIL GAIMAN It was true: the other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon ...
NEIL GAIMAN How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline.
The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and l...
NEIL GAIMAN Oh ... My twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And I give you b...
NEIL GAIMAN But how can you walk away from something and still come
back to it?"
"Easy," said the cat....
NEIL GAIMAN o non voglio tutto ciò che desidero. Nessuno lo vuole. Non veramente. Che divertimento sarebbe, se ...
NEIL GAIMAN Coraline’s father stopped working and made them all dinner. Coraline was disgusted. “Daddy,” s...
NEIL GAIMAN Coraline tried drawing the mist. After ten minutes of drawing she still had a white sheet of paper w...
NEIL GAIMAN Small world," said Coraline. "It's big enough for her," said the cat. "Spiders' webs only have to be...
NEIL GAIMAN Cats don’t have names,” it said.

“No?” said Coraline.

“No,” said t...
NEIL GAIMAN Old but contented, the face of a man who had sipped life’s vinegar and found it, by and large, to ...
NEIL GAIMAN Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement ...
NEIL GAIMAN Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, pe...
NEIL GAIMAN I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death pe...
NEIL GAIMAN If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe.
Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that NEIL GAIMAN What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it...
NEIL GAIMAN Fair enough,” said Thor. “What’s the price?” “Freya’s hand in marriage.” “He just wa...
NEIL GAIMAN It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire me...
NEIL GAIMAN I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.
NEIL GAIMAN You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
NEIL GAIMAN In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glitt...
NEIL GAIMAN Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?
NEIL GAIMAN She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap...
NEIL GAIMAN The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be...
NEIL GAIMAN The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.
NEIL GAIMAN Oh- my twitchy witchy girl
I think you are so nice,
I give you bowls of porridge
And ...
NEIL GAIMAN Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to...
NEIL GAIMAN I am the mother of Odin's stallion, Sleipnir. I am the father of Fenrir Sun-Eater, and of Hel Half-R...
NEIL GAIMAN We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
NEIL GAIMAN Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and i...
NEIL GAIMAN You're a poem?' I repeated.

She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am ...
NEIL GAIMAN We...we could be friends.'

We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing Afric...
NEIL GAIMAN What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
'Cats don't have names,'...
NEIL GAIMAN Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as ...
NEIL GAIMAN When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ...
NEIL GAIMAN To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, bu...
NEIL GAIMAN Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe...
NEIL GAIMAN Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and free...
NEIL GAIMAN My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ...
NEIL GAIMAN I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you ar...
NEIL GAIMAN