“You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”
— Neil Gaiman“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, brave.”
— Neil Gaiman“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
— Neil Gaiman“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
— Neil Gaiman“Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.”
— Neil Gaiman“Have 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.”
— Neil Gaiman“In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.”
— Neil Gaiman“Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you'll see the worldIf I'm not mistaken...Kiss a loverDance a measure,Find your nameAnd buried treasure...Face your lifeIts pain, Its pleasure,Leave no path untaken.”
— Neil Gaiman“Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')”
— Neil Gaiman“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
— Neil Gaiman“Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.”
— Neil Gaiman“There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.”
— Neil Gaiman“He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.”
— Neil Gaiman“If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.”
— Neil Gaiman“Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.”
— Neil GaimanThe world will never see another you. Don’t let that life go to waste.
— Neil GaimanThe dead never truly die. They simply change shape and walk among us in other ways.
— Neil Gaiman