“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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“My throat tightened when I noticed a small tattoo of an origami rose on his upper arm. . .
"Hey, Lenzi," he whispered, barely louder than the surf.
"Rose," I said as our lips met. "My name is Rose.”
― Mary Lindsey, quote from Shattered Souls
“- How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet?
- Hmmm... A poetic gladiator.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Remember When
“Their growing up amounted, therefore, to a gradual dimming of the light at her bedroom door, as if they took some radiance with them as they moved away from her. She should have planned for it better, she sometimes thought. She should have made a few friends or joined a club. But she wasn’t the type. It wouldn’t have consoled her.”
― Anne Tyler, quote from Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
“All of her hormones had sat bolt upright and immediately launched into a stirring rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, quote from Absolutely, Positively
“Now I have no notion at all of propounding a new ideal. There is no new ideal imaginable by the madness of modern sophists, which will be anything like so startling as fulfilling any one of the old ones. On the day that any copybook maxim is carried out there will be something like an earthquake on the earth. There is only one thing new that can be done under the sun; and that is to look at the sun. If you attempt it on a blue day in June, you will know why men do not look straight at their ideals.”
― G.K. Chesterton, quote from What's Wrong with the World
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