“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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“What would it be like to be joy-stricken? To labor through the days inconsolably shadowed by delight; pierced by overwhelming, paralyzing beauty; immobilized with wonder; felled by curiosity; unable to get past appreciation; unable to function except to ask over and over, giddily, "Why me? Why such luck?”
― Carl Safina, quote from Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
“will not tell you one single solitary fact about my work, my friends, or the woman I was arrested with. But I will tell you this, René Bordelon. You’re a gullible fool. You’re a terrible lover. And I hate Baudelaire.”
― Kate Quinn, quote from The Alice Network
“The problem, as I see it, are the twin human creations of marriage and religion. It is marriage and religion that make copulation complex and hurtful. Marriage brings up notions of trust, cuckoldry and ownership, while religion makes certain kinds of intimacy sinful.”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Tournament
“Straight-faced, Hamon said, "I'm honored to be working alongside someone with such expert woodland knowledge, superior battle skills, and an impressive beard."
Ven stroked his beard. "Indeed you are.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, quote from The Queen of Blood
“dicere quae puduit, scribere jussit amor”
― Brittany Cavallaro, quote from The Last of August
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