Neil Gaiman
Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.Collection: Writing
Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way.Collection: Way
And sometimes when you fall... you fly...Collection: Beautiful
Sometimes big things happen, and they echo. Those echoes crash across worlds. They are the ripples in the fabric of things. Often they manifest as storms. Reality is a fragile thing, after all.Collection: Reality
And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.Collection: Done
It does not matter where you come from, if you walk toward the truth you will reach it, whatever path you take.Collection: Doe
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.Collection: Lying
Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.Collection: Knowledge
Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.Collection: Believe
I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.Collection: Relationship
Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.Collection: Dream
Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.Collection: Children
Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.Collection: Adults
Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together.Collection: Joy
Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.Collection: Age
You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of apparent triumph. No matter how grandiose, how well-planned, how apparently foolproof of an evil plan, the inherent sinfulness will by definition rebound upon its instigators. No matter how apparently successful it may seem upon the way, at the end it will wreck itself. It will founder upon the rocks of iniquity and sink headfirst to vanish without trace into the seas of oblivion.Collection: Successful
Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.Collection: Disease
There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.Collection: Moving
Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.Collection: Jobs
You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.Collection: Farewell
To be honest, I think love is complete bullshit. I don't think anyone ever loves anyone. I think the best people ever get is horny; horny and scared, so when they find someone who makes them horny, and they get too scared of the world outside, they stay together and they call it love.Collection: Love Is
You are an analog girl, living in a digital world.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Heart
It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us.Collection: Details
But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.Collection: Memories
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.Collection: Thinking
Idris: Are all people like this? The Doctor: Like what? Idris: So much bigger on the inside.Collection: Doctors
I remembered that, and, remembering that, I remembered everything.Collection: Remember
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.Collection: Father
I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.Collection: Children
It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.Collection: Desert
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.Collection: Father
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.Collection: Long
They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.Collection: School
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.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Dirty
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.Collection: Boss
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.Collection: Children
Words save our lives, sometimes.Collection: Sometimes
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.Collection: Faces
This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.Collection: Reality
You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.Collection: Growing Up
Everything here is so weak, little girl. Everything breaks so easily. They want such simple things.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Hurt
I couldn't get you to the ocean, but there was nothing stopping me bringing the ocean to you.Collection: Ocean
Can you believe it? Fifty miles from McDonald's. I didn't think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from McDonald's.Collection: Believe
I am the most unhappy soul alive." "I'd heard it said that fairies have no souls." "Then do I ache, and bleed, and smart, elsewhere; still, call it soul for it is solely mine.Collection: Smart
Here, far from our homes, we will be forgotten by our gods.Collection: Home