“She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it begins to get dark.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Sandman: Endless Nights
“I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Sandman: Endless Nights
“You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Sandman: Endless Nights
“To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Sandman: Endless Nights
“He is holding a book.
Inside the book is the Universe.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Sandman: Endless Nights
“The people in the city seem paper thin in the mist. They believe they are dancing to the music of their lives... But I think, like the puppets, each of us is pulled upon invisible strings, until the night comes and we are put away. I shiver, and hurry from the square, as the darkness of the city closes over me like canal water or the grave.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Sandman: Endless Nights
“She sat by the side of the road, in the snow, all bodiless and afraid, waiting for the happiness to start.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Sandman: Endless Nights
“If you can't be happy where you are, you can't be happy anywhere”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Sandman: Endless Nights
“I you can't be happy where you are, you can't be happy anywhere.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Sandman: Endless Nights
“The Gods did not count time spent fishing in the hours of a man's life.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Sandman: Endless Nights
“Oči má šedé. Vlasy má rozcuchané a mokré. Prsty má jako buřtíky. Nehty má pokousané a polámané. Zuby má křivé, rozeklané. Má prázdný pohled, a když jste jí poblíž, vzbuzuje ve vás pocit nepřítomnosti, který se nedá slovy vyjádřit. Jejím znakem je prsten s háčkem. Jednoho dne se vám ten háček zadře do srdce. Popsat ji znamená vyjádřit, co je a proč je: přijde, když naděje pomine. Je v tisících čekáren a prázdných ulicích, v budovách ze šedého betonu a v bezejmenných hotelech. Je na druhé straně každého zrcadla. když tě oči, které se na tebe dívají, znají až moc dobře. Stojí a čeká a v jejím postoji ti už bolest neříká, abys žil, a v její přítomnosti je radost nepředstavitelná.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Sandman: Endless Nights
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“He paid scant attention to the conversation. He could smell his own sent on Anna's body, and it satisfied him in a primal way ... She gasped as he buried his nose in her maiden hair and inhaled. His scent was strongest here, in her gilded curls so soft and pretty in the morning light.”
― Elizabeth Hoyt, quote from The Raven Prince
“Rama glanced at her whenever a beautiful object caught his eye. Every tint of the sky, every shape of a flower or bud, every elegant form of a creeper reminded him of some aspect or other of Sita’s person.”
― Vālmīki, quote from Ramayana
“when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life.”
― P.C. Cast, quote from Goddess of the Sea
“There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares...heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.”
― Joan D. Vinge, quote from The Snow Queen
“KNOWLT HOHEIMER
I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge.
When I felt the bullet water my heart
I wished I had staid at home and gone to jail
For stealing the hogs of Curl Trenary,
Instead of running away and joining the army.
Rather a thousand times the country jail
That to lie under his marble figure with wings,
And this granite pedestal
Bearing the words, «Pro Patria».
What do they mean, anyway?”
― Edgar Lee Masters, quote from Spoon River Anthology
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