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Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 42

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You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend

You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend

Stars, Finest, Wisest

Twitter post from Mar 26, 2011

What about volcanoes?" "What about them?" "All that lava comes up from center of the earth where it is all hot. I saw a program, it had David Attenborough, so it's true.

Volcanoes, Hot, Earth

If you can't eat it, drink it, smoke it, or snort it... then f*ck it!

Drink, Ifs, Smoke

Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition (Enhanced Edition): A Novel”, p.46, Harper Collins

How would you feel about life if Death was your older sister?

Older Sister, Feels, Ifs

Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth (2009). “The Absolute Sandman”, Titan Publishing Company

I think I could be a perfectly decent cat. I've been around cats long enough to know what the rules of being a cat are. When all else fails, wash. And I think I could master the thing that cats do, where they stalk away pretending they meant to do whatever it was in the first place; showing their wounded dignity.

Cat, Thinking, Long

If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him.

Upset, Care, Ifs

It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats.

Heart, Years, Dozen

No, look, there's a blue box. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywhere in time and space and sometimes even where it's meant to go. And when it turns up, there's a bloke in it called The Doctor and there will be stuff wrong and he will do his best to sort it out and he will probably succeed cos he's awesome. Now sit down, shut up, and watch 'Blink'.

Blue, Space, Doctors

"If This is Sunday Than I Must be at Home" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. April 7, 2011.

Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.

Mean, My Best Friend, Said

Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.109, A&C Black

I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it's what you call someone when you're worried that using a long word like 'intellectual' may have too many syllables. It's not something that people who have serious, important things to say call other people.

Writing, Thinking, Long

"Neil Gaiman hits back at US politician's theft accusation" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2011.

Friday's a free day. A woman's day.

Friday

Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.60, Hachette UK

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.

People, Trying, Assuming

The moonlight was enough. It would do.

Enough, Moonlight

Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.5, A&C Black

The only water in the forest is the River.

Rivers, Water, Forests

You shine like a beacon in a dark world.

Dark, Shining, World

Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.109, Hachette UK

The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.

Girl, Erotic, Bananas

Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.52, Hachette UK

Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn’t work. Like mirrors stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in darkness.

Mirrors, Darkness, Use

Neil Gaiman (2009). “Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions”, p.2, Harper Collins

There was no moon but the night sky was a riot of crisp and glittering autumn stars. There were streetlights too and lights on buildings and on bridges which looked like earthbound stars and they glimmered repeated as they were reflected with the city in the night water of the Thames. It’s fairyland thought Richard.

Stars, Autumn, Moon

We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never had, the time we did not spend together. I regret that I never told him that he made me happy, when I was in his company. The world was the better for his being in it. These things alone do I now regret: things left unsaid. And he is gone, and I am old.

Regret, Together, Gone

"The Wake (The Sandman, Book 10)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, August 1995 – March 1996.

You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

Running, Home, World

Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable.

Baseball, Giving Up, Mean

So, if a city has a personality, maybe it also has a soul. Maybe it dreams.

Dream, Cities, Personality

All bookshelves are magical.

Bookshelves

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

Men, Use, Get Away

Watch out for that pedestrian!" "It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking!

Risk, Watches, Pedestrians

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