“Lives are snowflakes - forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod, but still unique.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Even in the pettiest, most unpromising material, she had discovered, you could find real treasures.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“That´s the trouble with living things. Don´t last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If not for Death, they'd be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“(Who Did No Harm to No Man all the Dais of Her Life. Reader, Can You Say Lykewise?).” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Even in dreams and in death, a monk and a fox are from different worlds, as they were in life, and in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You will not even die in battle. No warrior will taste your blood. No one alive will take your life. You will… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Life is no play. We meet people once, and never see them again. There is no shape to events, no point at… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries." "I'm tired of mysteries." "Yeah? I think they add a kind of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Repeat after me, there are the living and the dead, there are day-folk and night-folk, there are ghouls and mist-walkers, there are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“This is my body, he said, two thousand years ago. This is my blood. It was the only religion that delivered exactly… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“He heard long ago, in a dream, that one day in every century Death takes on mortal flesh, better to comprehend what… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life,” said… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I would have given my life for you," she whispered, sadly. "Live," said the monk. "You shall be revenged," said the fox.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“ Ah, well, she thought. Being dead is probably just like everything else in life: you pick some of it up as… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I believe that life is a game, life is a cruel joke and that life is what happens when you’re alive and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Death had vanished from the streets of America, thought Shadow; now it happened in hospital rooms and in ambulances. We must not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning — a boundary… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There are always places to go further down, even when you've been taken off the board; life goes on, even if it's… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody” — neil Gaiman Copy Share
