Someone had once told her that if you look up at the sky from the bottom of a mine shaft, even in the brightest daylight, you see a night sky and stars.


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

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
You see the night sky and billions of stars stare down at you. In their eyes there are billions of p...
KAYLA RAE
When you look up in the sky at night and see that one star shining brightly, You know that a friend ...
MADELIN M.
Look at that, Vera.”
I tilt my head back and see a sky full of stars.
“Can you tell wh...
A.S. KING
If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars ar...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you c...
MARGARET ATWOOD
When you look up to the sky and wonder why? Think of the stars burning bright ,as ascended souls shi...
EVAN KEOUGH
Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky you can see the stars and still not see the...
JACK TEMPCHIN
I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud
NEIL GAIMAN
When you look up and don’t see the stars, the universe may have cleared the sky for you to replace...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Anytime that you look up to the clear sky and see colors in it, you should be suspecting that you ar...
STEVEN MAGEE
Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see.
SHERLOCK HOLMES
You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living....
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up t...
TOM HANKS
You're not limited to the sky as seen from the Earth. You can actually go up into the sky and fly th...
MARK WEBB
When life is difficult, try looking up at the night sky. A million stars proclaim aloud His Handiwor...
ANUSHA ATUKORALA
And, selfish and scared, I wonder how much more he has to give.
NEIL GAIMAN
shoot for the stars,but even if you do half as good, you'll end up playing in the sky
JONATHAN CLAUDIO LUNA
once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up
LEONARDO DA VINCI
At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that yo...
NATALIE WOOD
We will join our palms together, fingers intertwined in each other, and look at the stars in the nig...
AVIJEET DAS
Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky...
GRACE WILLOWS
How can you tell which is a real fishing boat and which is not from up in the sky at night?
ALAN CHAN
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
The thing I like about astronomy is being outside at night and seeing the stars in a dark sky. It ma...
JIMMY WALKER
Sometime if you look up in the sky. There is a path of your destiny.
MAZ NO PARADISE
She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap...
NEIL GAIMAN
I wish I had a brush that could paint the whole sky and turn every morning into night. I wish I coul...
AKSHAY VASU
It's raised up in the sky. You can look up to it and see the moving elements.
BRIAN MEUNIER
I look at the sky and the dust that separates us from the stars that will be my home. I breathe in t...
CORINNE DUYVIS
A frog in a well shaft seeing the sky.
CHINESE PROVERBS
How is sky the limit?...When it can't be touched
SCOTT
STARS AND DANDELIONS
Deep in the blue sky,
like pebbles at the bottom of the sea,
lie...
MISUZU KANEKO
At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and ...
JOHN GREEN
Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying...
JOE HILL
One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion sta...
MICHIO KAKU
The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble w...
ROSEMARY MAHONEY
If you’ve ever had a rational thought or asked Why? or gazed at the night sky in silent wonder, th...
ERIC WEINER
It's amazing the difference
A bit of sky can make.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
You can grow like a tall tree, when you enjoy the sun, wind, rain, storms and the stars in the dark ...
AMIT RAY
It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?"
"Yes, someone did."
"A Man?"
"...
NEIL GAIMAN
All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.
JOSEPH HELLER
It was neither the time, nor the place for a star to shine. For a star shines at night in the sky, n...
AHMAD TALAL ASIF
You lose sight of the Stars... if you're looking for the Sky.
NAVRAS NEGATIVEONE
You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C.
Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck i...
ANONYMOUS
A friend of mine, Neil Gaiman, had the film rights to his book 'Stardust' bought by producer...
JANE GOLDMAN
We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the differe...
PAULO COELHO
Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in lo...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN
Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you...
MARGARET ATWOOD
And he will never know what it is to look up at the night sky and wish.
SARAH J. MAAS
Our bugles sang truce - for the night-cloud had lowered, / And the sentinel stars set their watch in...
THOMAS CAMPBELL
Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.
JOHN BOYNE
The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a h...
ALICE HOFFMAN
All I can see is you. Why can't you understand that? No one shines as bright as you in the sky I'm l...
JAY CROWNOVER
No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered th...
LLEWELYN POWYS
What are you looking at?" Jordan demanded finally, watching
her.

"A dragon." When ...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT
The sky is the limit only if you have a problem with reaching for the stars.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER
I myself have seen this woman draw the stars from the sky; she diverts the course of a fast-flowing ...
TIBULLUS
For nothing, not the sun, not the rain, not even the brightest star in the darkest sky, could begin ...
RENEE AHDIEH
Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.
RICK YANCEY
I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to an...
PTOLEMY
Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multit...
PTOLEMY
Sherlock Holmes and Matthew Watson were on a camping and hiking trip. They had gone to bed and were ...
UNKNOWN
There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shin...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
Competence is the most effective tool to hide madness. Black holes actually appear to be the brighte...
KIRTIDA GAUTAM
When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual ...
TYCHO BRAHE
When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual ...
TYCHO BRAHE
Sometimes when the world goes dark, and everyone turns their backs on you, just look to the sky to s...
TIMOTHY NORR
All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travele...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
We are going from looking at a few stars a night to an all-sky survey where over a year we will sear...
BRUCE BETTS
Old stars fade, new stars light up the sky
ALLEN JOHNSON
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th...
VICTOR HUGO
Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady."
A tear trickled down Artemis's che...
RICK RIORDAN
No, Sky. You didn't tell her everything…you told you everything. Those things happened to you, not...
COLLEEN HOOVER
Even when you're at the South Pole, you still have to look up to see the stars.
FLORD VIOUZRE
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl...
BRIAN GREENE
You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co...
THEO ENGELA
Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky.
LAINI TAYLOR
There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things ...
HUBERT SELBY JR.
just because they don’t hit you doesn’t mean it isn’t abuse.   wouldn’t you think it a crim...
AMANDA LOVELACE
We listen to music wherever we go. But sometimes we should look up into the sky on a starry night an...
SS038NICK
The last time she was up here, she had been... staring up at the sky and dreaming of stars. Now, she...
KIERSTEN WHITE
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES
For you, my love, I would endeavor to pluck the stars from the sky, only to shower them at your feet...
SYLVAIN REYNARD
She glanced outside at the sky, filled with clouds and smog. All the pollution, all that hell—even...
KATHERINE MCINTYRE
When we look at the sky on a clear sunny day we see a lovely blue, and then at night, we would then ...
GARY F EVANS...
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, tw...
SAI BABA
A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.

—ATTICUS
ATTICUS POETRY
Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so ...
ABBIE CORNISH
There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them throu...
JODI PICOULT
The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in...
IDINA MENZEL
I will love you and only you until the stars are shaken out of the sky.
RACHEL ALEXANDER
I had travelled from Spain into Morocco and from there south to the Atlas Mountains, at the edge of ...
PAUL BOGARD
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
ALBERT CAMUS
If the splendor of thousands of suns were to blaze forth all at once in the sky, even that would not...
BHAGAVAD GITA
Friends are like the stars that glow in the sky... you don't always see them, but you know they're a...
REBECCA MCNUTT

More Neil Gaiman

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vis...
NEIL GAIMAN
When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and...
NEIL GAIMAN
When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which mean...
NEIL GAIMAN
There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradis...
NEIL GAIMAN
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
NEIL GAIMAN
All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you c...
NEIL GAIMAN
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure wh...
NEIL GAIMAN
Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break...
NEIL GAIMAN
Words save our lives, sometimes.
NEIL GAIMAN
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
NEIL GAIMAN
I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.
NEIL GAIMAN
I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and ca...
NEIL GAIMAN
Idris: Are all people like this?
The Doctor: Like what?
Idris: So much bigger on the insid...
NEIL GAIMAN
Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon ...
NEIL GAIMAN
I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do,...
NEIL GAIMAN
I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It w...
NEIL GAIMAN
Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’

Bod thought for a mo...
NEIL GAIMAN
Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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
There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they we...
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
I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.
NEIL GAIMAN
CORALINE'S STORY
THERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND D...
NEIL GAIMAN
Sleep my little baby-oh
Sleep until you waken
When you wake you'll see the world
If I...
NEIL GAIMAN
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
NEIL GAIMAN
Does it make you feel big to make a little boy cry?
NEIL GAIMAN
I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at t...
NEIL GAIMAN
25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying 'Where is the flaming swo...
NEIL GAIMAN
I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to lo...
NEIL GAIMAN
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are re...
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
The gods we prayed to when we were young used up their time so long ago. They cannot answer anymore....
NEIL GAIMAN
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and...
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
I am the mother of Odin's stallion, Sleipnir. I am the father of Fenrir Sun-Eater, and of Hel Half-R...
NEIL GAIMAN
He estado haciendo una lista de las cosas que no te enseñan en la escuela. Ellos no te enseñan có...
NEIL GAIMAN
I'll tell you a secret. A raven created the world. When Noah sent him out to find land, he couldn't ...
NEIL GAIMAN
It must be a real betrayal, when your body turns against you.

I wonder if she likes flow...
NEIL GAIMAN
Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Facets, Matthew. Each facet catches the light in its own way. It glints and sparkles and flashes uni...
NEIL GAIMAN
Love takes hostages.
NEIL GAIMAN
We are all improved by the glow of memory.
NEIL GAIMAN
As-tu déjà été amoureux? C'est horrible non? Ca rend si vulnérable. Ca t'ouvre la poitrine et l...
NEIL GAIMAN
MORPHEUS: I did not intend to hurt you,

THESSALY: And what if you did not? Intent and out...
NEIL GAIMAN
Delirium: You use that word so much. Responsibilities. Do you ever think about what that means? I me...
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
Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and ...
NEIL GAIMAN
I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a l...
NEIL GAIMAN
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no cl...
NEIL GAIMAN
All around me darkness gathers,
Fading is the sun that shone,
We must speak of other mat...
NEIL GAIMAN
We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
NEIL GAIMAN
We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the conseque...
NEIL GAIMAN
You don't have to stay anywhere forever.
NEIL GAIMAN
Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life......
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
She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you k...
NEIL GAIMAN
I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she...
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
It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire me...
NEIL GAIMAN
You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds."
"What, a ph...
NEIL GAIMAN
Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more c...
NEIL GAIMAN
There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place...
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
Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragi...
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
There's none so blind as those who will not listen.
NEIL GAIMAN
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell u...
NEIL GAIMAN
There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.
NEIL GAIMAN
For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of...
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 looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said...
NEIL GAIMAN
For a moment she felt utterly dislocated. She did not know where she was; she was not entirely sure ...
NEIL GAIMAN
It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't ...
NEIL GAIMAN
There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.
NEIL GAIMAN
On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Co...
NEIL GAIMAN
They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one...
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
You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly.
'You have a very funny way of showing it,' ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don'...
NEIL GAIMAN
Oh- my twitchy witchy girl
I think you are so nice,
I give you bowls of porridge
And ...
NEIL GAIMAN
I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by weari...
NEIL GAIMAN
Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.
NEIL GAIMAN
Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to...
NEIL GAIMAN
We are small but we are many
We are many we are small
We were here before you rose
We...
NEIL GAIMAN
I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.
NEIL GAIMAN
The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
NEIL GAIMAN
The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We ke...
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
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
NEIL GAIMAN
How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline.
"I swear it," said the other mother. "I s...
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
I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.
NEIL GAIMAN
You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
NEIL GAIMAN
I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody...
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
What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it�...
NEIL GAIMAN
I’m not happy about any of this,” said Thor. “I’m going to kill somebody soon, just to relie...
NEIL GAIMAN
Fair enough,” said Thor. “What’s the price?” “Freya’s hand in marriage.” “He just wa...
NEIL GAIMAN
Because,” said Thor, “when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki�...
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
Kiss a lover,
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure.

Fac...
NEIL GAIMAN
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.
NEIL GAIMAN
I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll m...
NEIL GAIMAN
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no cl...
NEIL GAIMAN
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which migh...
NEIL GAIMAN
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchc...
NEIL GAIMAN
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
NEIL GAIMAN
I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with se...
NEIL GAIMAN
The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that t...
NEIL GAIMAN
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning...
NEIL GAIMAN
My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ...
NEIL GAIMAN
A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it....
NEIL GAIMAN
You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak...
NEIL GAIMAN
And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obs...
NEIL GAIMAN
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only...
NEIL GAIMAN
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doe...
NEIL GAIMAN
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endur...
NEIL GAIMAN
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you ar...
NEIL GAIMAN
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest a...
NEIL GAIMAN
CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.

MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, hors...
NEIL GAIMAN
Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.
NEIL GAIMAN
Traveling through the Dragon's Den, it has just been explained that Haroun, the Ifrit, has been caug...
NEIL GAIMAN
I think all - or the ones thet I've run into - tend to have a faintly tenuous relationship with the ...
NEIL GAIMAN
I think all geniuses - or the ones thet I've run into - tend to have a faintly tenuous relationship ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
NEIL GAIMAN
Even nothing cannot last forever.
NEIL GAIMAN
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doi...
NEIL GAIMAN
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine boo...
NEIL GAIMAN
And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
NEIL GAIMAN
- The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only ...
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
You shouldn't trust the storyteller; only trust the story.
NEIL GAIMAN
Value's in what people think. Not in what's real. Value's in dreams, boy.
NEIL GAIMAN
We write our names in the sand, and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
NEIL GAIMAN
Bodies are strange. Some people have real problems with the stuff that goes on inside them. You find...
NEIL GAIMAN
Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees tha...
NEIL GAIMAN
If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that bad to fail, that hard to fall?
NEIL GAIMAN
Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of ...
NEIL GAIMAN
I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear.
Yeah, everybody wonders. ...
NEIL GAIMAN
It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.
NEIL GAIMAN
You know what happens when you dream of falling? Sometimes you wake up.
Sometimes the fall kil...
NEIL GAIMAN
Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.
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
It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. If you do...
NEIL GAIMAN
You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And...
NEIL GAIMAN
There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized...
NEIL GAIMAN
There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worl...
NEIL GAIMAN
We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright ...
NEIL GAIMAN
October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a boo...
NEIL GAIMAN
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting o...
NEIL GAIMAN
I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrif...
NEIL GAIMAN
We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bea...
NEIL GAIMAN
The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They a...
NEIL GAIMAN
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
NEIL GAIMAN
Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves i...
NEIL GAIMAN
A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?
NEIL GAIMAN
I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the ...
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
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay t...
NEIL GAIMAN
I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality wa...
NEIL GAIMAN
Proper bread was white, and pre-sliced, and tasted like almost nothing: that was the point.
NEIL GAIMAN
Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them ar...
NEIL GAIMAN
Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and t...
NEIL GAIMAN
Books were safer than other people anyway.
NEIL GAIMAN
I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And whe...
NEIL GAIMAN
As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.
NEIL GAIMAN
Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found.
NEIL GAIMAN
I felt like a Porsche that had learned it wasn't a bicycle anymore but was still taking part in bicy...
NEIL GAIMAN
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, ...
NEIL GAIMAN
One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irri...
NEIL GAIMAN
The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.
NEIL GAIMAN
I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it ...
NEIL GAIMAN
You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplic...
NEIL GAIMAN
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
NEIL GAIMAN
So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines a...
NEIL GAIMAN
When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me ...
NEIL GAIMAN
As I look back on all that's happened..growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me -- th...
NEIL GAIMAN
I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I mi...
NEIL GAIMAN
Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the stronge...
NEIL GAIMAN
Yes I love him. I love him more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would l...
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
I've noticed that being with you, I smile more often, I anger a little less quickly, the sun shines ...
NEIL GAIMAN
What power would Hell have if those imprisoned there were not able to dream of Heaven?
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
The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has ge...
NEIL GAIMAN
Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the w...
NEIL GAIMAN