Neil Gaiman Quotes

You don't have to stay anywhere forever.

I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

The view changes from where you are standing.
Words can wound, and wounds can heal.
All of these things are true.

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.

. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories.
I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.

The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.

You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’
‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark.

You know when I said I knew little about love? That wasn't true. I know a lot about love. I've seen it, centuries and centuries of it, and it was the only thing that made watching your world bearable. All those wars. Pain, lies, hate... It made me want to turn away and never look down again. But when I see the way that mankind loves... You could search to the furthest reaches of the universe and never find anything more beautiful. So yes, I know that love is unconditional. But I also know that it can be unpredictable, unexpected, uncontrollable, unbearable and strangely easy to mistake for loathing, and... What I'm trying to say, Tristan is... I think I love you. Is this love, Tristan? I never imagined I'd know it for myself. My heart... It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it's trying to escape because it doesn't belong to me any more. It belongs to you. And if you wanted it, I'd wish for nothing in exchange - no gifts. No goods. No demonstrations of devotion. Nothing but knowing you loved me too. Just your heart, in exchange for mine.

Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless.
The tale is the map that is the territory.
You must remember this.