“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Fables & Reflections
“It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. 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, quote from Fables & Reflections
“Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Fables & Reflections
“Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Fables & Reflections
“Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Fables & Reflections
“You know what happens when you dream of falling? Sometimes you wake up.
Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Fables & Reflections
“It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Fables & Reflections
“Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories of the future...”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Fables & Reflections
“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, quote from Fables & Reflections
“Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Fables & Reflections
“Bodies are strange. Some people have real problems with the stuff that goes on inside them. You find out that inside someone you know there's just mucus and meat and slime and bone. They menstruate, salivate, defecate and cry. You know? Sometimes it can just kill the romance. You know that?”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Fables & Reflections
“We write our names in the sand, and then the waves roll in and wash them away.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Fables & Reflections
“Value's in what people think. Not in what's real. Value's in dreams, boy.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Fables & Reflections
“You shouldn't trust the storyteller; only trust the story.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Fables & Reflections
“And all the time we spent in this place would fade and vanish, like a dawn dream on waking that colours the day but cannot be touched or remembered.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Fables & Reflections
“- The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only the State, and the People.
- No, Monsieur Robespierre. There is much more than that.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Fables & Reflections
“And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Fables & Reflections
“It is true that my rent is but 50 cents a week. It is true that my clothes were a gift from the city council. I exchange federal currency for my own, and thus I live. Many restaurants and eating houses now accept my scrip. This is my city, in my country. They treat me well here. I am the Emperor of the United States, Pain. I am content to be what I am. What more than that could any man desire?”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Fables & Reflections
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“I took ten days off and by 11 o’clock on the first morning I had drunk fourteen cups of coffee, read all the newspapers and the Guardian and then… and then what?
By lunchtime I was so bored that I decided to hang a few pictures. So I found a hammer, and later a man came to replaster the bits of wall I had demolished. Then I tried to fix the electric gates, which work only when there’s an omega in the month. So I went down the drive with a spanner, and later another man came to put them back together again.
I was just about to start on the Aga, which had broken down on Christmas Eve, as they do, when my wife took me on one side by my earlobe and explained that builders do not, on the whole, spend their spare time writing, so writers should not build on their days off. It’s expensive and it can be dangerous, she said.”
― Jeremy Clarkson, quote from The World According to Clarkson
“To the inhabitants of the pond, the pond was the world; and to the inhabitants of the world, the world was but a muddy pond.”
― Ruskin Bond, quote from The Best of Ruskin Bond
“She is not yet your wife. You have more endurance than any man I know, White Wolf. Her man is not coming for her.”
― Peggy L. Henderson, quote from Yellowstone Heart Song
“I can see him juggling the words inside his head. Fumbling. I tried to juggle once, with three apples I'd found in the pantry. But I just ended up bruising them all so badly my mother had to make apple bread. The whole time I was trying, I kept getting lost in the movements. I couldn't concentrate on all of them at once.
I wish Cole would give me an apple. And then he looks at me, and there's that same sad, almost smile, like he's decided to pass me one, but he knows I can't juggle either. Like there's no reason for both of us to bruise things any more than needed.
I hold out my hand. "Let me help.”
― Victoria Schwab, quote from The Near Witch
“competir. No te dejes avasallar por nadie y aunque hayas nacido en un hogar humilde, no te consideres por ello indigno. Si luchas con esfuerzo, conseguirás todo lo que te propongas. Y por último, cuida y protege a tus hermanas, llevan tu misma sangre... Hijo mío, jamás olvides que tuviste un padre que te quiso más que a nada en el mundo, y que un día, orgulloso, te mirará desde el cielo.» Delante”
― Gonzalo Giner, quote from The Horse Healer
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