Top 500 Neil Gaiman Quotes (2023 Update)
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401. “I think I’ve got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror?”

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402. “How would you feel about life if Death was your older sister?”

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403. “He has two ravens, whom he calls Huginn and Muninn, which mean “thought” and “memory.” These birds fly back and forth across the world, seeking news and bringing Odin all the knowledge of things. They perch on his shoulders and whisper into his ears.”

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404. “You know I love you,? said the other mother flatly. ‘You have a very funny way of showing it,’ said Coraline.”

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405. “We often confuse what we wish for with what is.”

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406. “As sure as water’s wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.”

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407. “Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.”

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408. “For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.”

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409. “Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody?”

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410. “I am only alive when I perceive a challenge.”

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411. “I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn’t a proper place. I like in betweens.”

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412. “Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.”

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413. “I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.”

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414. “I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.”

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415. “After a while it sort of began to rain, which is to say that it was the kind of rain that never comes to a decision about whether it’s actually raining or not. Driving in it, you would never have been certain whether or not to turn on your wipers.”

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416. “I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?”

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417. “The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.”

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418. “I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.”

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419. “Why are we talking about this good and evil? They’re just names for sides. We know that.”

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420. “It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is.”

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421. “Face your life Its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken” “Leave no path untaken,” repeated Bod. “A difficult challenge, but I can try my best.”

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422. “A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.”

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423. “Can’t make an omelette without killing a few people.”

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424. “I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.”

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425. “On the first day Coraline’s family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and they warned her to be sure she kept away from it. So Coraline set off to explore for it, so that she knew where it was, to keep away from it properly.”

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426. “I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.”

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427. “I couldn’t get you to the ocean, but there was nothing stopping me bringing the ocean to you.”

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428. “Does it make you feel big to make a little boy cry?”

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429. “I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn’t done it properly.”

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430. “Small world,” said Coraline. “It’s big enough for her,” said the cat. “Spiders’ webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.”

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431. “Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.”

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432. “Going off the grid is always good for me. It’s the way that I’ve started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.”

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433. “And there never was an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.”

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434. “In Jotunheim, the home of the giants, is Mimir’s well. It bubbles up from deep in the ground, and it feeds Yggdrasil, the world-tree. Mimir, the wise one, the guardian of memory, knows many things. His well is wisdom, and when the world was young he would drink every morning from the well, by dipping the horn known as the Gjallerhorn into the water and draining it.”

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435. “He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest.”

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436. “I came to the conclusion that in comedy, everybody gets what they need, whereas in horror, everybody gets what they deserve. I decided that at the end of the day, I was going to give everybody what they needed.”

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437. “And the game begins anew.”

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438. “I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s what we do.”

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439. “London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.”

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440. “The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.”

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441. “Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.”

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442. “Honestly, if you’re given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don’t say ’what kind of tea?”

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443. “Everybody who has ever read Sandman knows exactly what the Sandman looks like, which is more than anybody who has ever read The Catcher in the Rye can say about Holden Caufield.”

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444. “He was alone in the darkness once more, but the darkness became brighter and brighter until it was burning like the sun.”

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445. “Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don’t even get your name right.”

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446. “That’s the trouble with living things. Don’t last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together.”

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447. “While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.”

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448. “One thing I’ve learned: you can know anything, it’s all there, you just have to find it.”

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449. “Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn’t she the one who killed her children?”

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450. “The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then.”

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