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Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 43

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It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.

It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.

Children, Couple, Soul

When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about it.

Talking, Want

If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run.

Running, Regret, Differences

That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together.

Life, Memories, Cat

Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.48, Hachette UK

How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow.

Heart, Land, World

It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us.

Details, Matter, Remember

But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.

Memories, Waiting, Coming Back

Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins

You wouldn't die in here, nothing ever dies in here, but if you stayed here for too long, after a while just a little of you would exist everywhere, all spread out. And that's not a good thing. Never enough of you all together in one place, so t here wouldn't be anything left that would think of itself as an 'I.' No point of view any longer, because you'd be an infinite sequence of views and of points.

Thinking, Views, Long

Idris: Are all people like this? The Doctor: Like what? Idris: So much bigger on the inside.

Doctors, People, Bigger

I remembered that, and, remembering that, I remembered everything.

Remember, Remembered

Neil Gaiman (2014). “An Excerpt from The Ocean at the End of the Lane: Chapters 1 - 3”, p.10, Harper Collins

She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men.

Father, Men, Daddy

It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.

Desert, World, Sand

Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.141, Hachette UK

She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did.

Father, Heart, Mind

She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but not quite, forgotten how.

Long, Forgotten, Coraline

Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.171, Bloomsbury Publishing

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

School, People, My Friends

Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.13, Harper Collins

I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.

Children, Book, Long

Hasn't there always been a moon?" "Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky - it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue.

Dirty, Moon, Sky

You can't just boss bacteria around like that," said the younger Mrs. Hempstock. "They don't like it." "Stuff and silliness," said the old lady. "You leave wigglers alone and they'll be carrying on like anything. Show them who's boss and they can't do enough for you. You've tasted my cheese.

Boss, Carrying On, Stuff

Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.39, Hachette UK

Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way of seeing things.

Children, Believe, World

But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.

Faces, Kitten, Purring

I would read. I would explore

Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.17, Harper Collins

This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.

Reality, Void, Blackness

Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.137, Hachette UK

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

Growing Up, Trying, Grows

Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.146, Hachette UK

Everything here is so weak, little girl. Everything breaks so easily. They want such simple things.

Girl, Simple, Want

Just go with it. It won't hurt.' I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.

Hurt, Adults, Said

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