“This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“He sighed. It was a long sigh, weary and worldly-wise. The kind of sigh you could picture God heaving after six days of hard work and looking forward to some serious cosmic R&R, only to be handed a report by an angel concerning a problem with someone eating an apple.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Magic" is simply a way of talking to the universe in a way that it cannot ignore.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“In an infinity of worlds, anything is not only possible, it's mandatory.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Hope when you've got nothing else, he once told us. But if you´ve got anything else, then for Heaven's sake, Do it!”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“All we really know of the universe is what filters in through our senses, and that isn’t a whole lot. Take the electromagnetic spectrum. It includes virtually every ripple of energy that powers the cosmos, from the long, lazy radio waves we communicate with through microwaves that we cook with all the way up to X-rays and gamma rays, which pack enough punch into their wavelengths to outshine an entire galaxy. All that majesty, all that infinite variety of energy, and all we see is a narrow little slice of it: seven measly colors. It’s like being invited to a royal banquet and then only being allowed to pick the crumbs off one plate.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“It's good to know where you are, but it's better to know where you're going.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“What good is a vocabulary that isn't used?”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“No problem,” I said with all the confidence of a lemming who thinks he’s headed for a nice day at the seashore.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“The quickest way out of something is usually straight through it.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Doesn't matter. You'll pick up what you need to know--cultural osmosis.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Sympatizuji s bolestí jeho rozhodování. A někteří muži vypadají s vousy dobře," četl v mém obličeji otázku a pokračoval: "Takže nikdy nemusí stát proti sobě v zrcadle, když se holí.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“If we just told the story simply and easily, then even a television executive would be able to understand it.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Sometimes war is necessary to teach us the value of peace. Sometimes you need to learn the real value of diplomacy in avoiding war. And I'd rather my students learned those lessons on the playground than on the battlefield.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“There were bad guys on flying manhole covers after me, and a guy with an armored crotch and a mirrored face.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Supongo que las habrá más guapas, más listas o mejores en el instituto de Greenville, pero nunca me he molestado en mirarlas. Por lo que a mí respecta, Rowena es la única chica que existe; aunque, tras dos años de esfuerzos, todavía no he logrado convencerla de que soy algo más que un extra de segunda en la película de su vida.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Sounds like you're trying to say that creation of new alternate worlds is a conscious decision.'
'I'm not trying to say it - I just said it.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
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“Čuo sam već šumu gdje jauče poput čovjeka koji se nađe u nevolji; slušao sam kako vjetar pjeva svoju pjesmu među granjem drveća; slušao sam munju kako praska poput upaljena grmlja, kad bljuje iskre i rašljaste plamenove, i sve mi se to činilo tek kao volja Onoga koji drži sve stvari u svojoj ruci.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, quote from The Last of the Mohicans
“He laughs with relief. “Yes.” The word yes is so much more beautiful coming from his mouth, laced with that voice. He could probably make any word beautiful. I try to think of a word I hate. I kind of hate the word ox. It’s an ugly word. Too short and clipped. I wonder if his voice could make me love that word. “Say the word ox.” His eyebrow rises, like he’s wondering if he heard me right. He thinks I’m weird. I don’t care. “Just say it,” I tell him. “Ox,” he says, with slight hesitation. I smile. I love the word ox. It’s my new favorite word.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Ugly Love
“As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“If he comes back,” she nodded. I thought I saw tears in her eyes but I was mistaken. In all my life, I was never to see her cry. And also he was never to come back. Without interrupting each other, we both said at the same time, “Let's never get out of touch with each other.” And we never have, although her death has come between us.”
― Norman Maclean, quote from A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
“One touch of regret- not the canny substitute but the true regret from the heart- would have made him a different man, and the British Empire a different institution.”
― E.M. Forster, quote from A Passage to India
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