Neil Gaiman Quotes

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.

“It can’t make things any worse.”
“If there’s one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse,” said my friend.

I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It’s as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get.

The map was gone, and the mapmaker, but the land lives on.

I think...I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

... the beast made the noise of a cat being shampooed, a lonely wail of horror and outrage, of shame and defeat.

"You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

It was England in the autumn; the sun was, by definition, something that only happened when it wasn't cloudy or raining.

There was reality and there was reality; and some things were more real than others.

Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

"How do I know you’ll keep your word?" asked Coraline.

"What's your name," Coraline asked the cat. "Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?"

"Because," she said, "when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave."

We are small but we are many, we are many we are small; we were here before you rose, we will be here when you fall.

There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do.