Neil Gaiman Quotes

She does not know where any tale waits
before it's told. (No more do I.)
But forty thieves sounds good, so forty
thieves it is. She prays she's bought another clutch of days. We save our lives in such unlikely ways.

It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.

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

All around me darkness gathers,
Fading is the sun that shone,
We must speak of other matters,
You can be me when I'm gone

Flowers gathered in the morning,
Afternoon they blossom on,
Still are withered in the evening,
You can be me when I'm gone.

"Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters."

"How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline.
"I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave."
"Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline.
"Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back."

We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves.

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

Even nothing cannot last forever.

I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone.

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the face and lips and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smiled and kept moving.

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say "what kind of tea?"