“Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“We think that tomorrow, unless we surrender, they may drop the moon on us." "You're joking." "Wish I was.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The marquis de Carabas looked up at him. His eyes were very white in the moonlight. And he whispered, "What's it like… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air--a mixture… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Hasn't there always been a moon?" "Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow thought about how you made the moon seem to come out of the sky and become a silver dollar, and what… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
So you used to know everything?" She wrinkled her nose. "Everybody did. I told you. It's nothing special, knowing how things work.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“That’s the moon,’ I said. ‘Gran likes it like that,’ said Lettie Hempstock. ‘But it was a crescent moon yesterday. And now… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“First the light in the sky was no bigger than the moon, then it seemed larger, infinitely larger, and the whole grove… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“In the pale light of the Moon I play the game of you. Whoever I am. Whoever you are. All sense of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, the're always flaring up and caving in and going… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I found myself, unbidden, thinking of the holy fools in the old story, the ones who went fishing in the lake for… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There was no moon but the night sky was a riot of crisp and glittering autumn stars. There were streetlights too and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Few of us have seen the stars as folk saw them then - our cities and towns cast too much light into… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Ten more minutes of walking, he guessed, and the bridge seemed to be no nearer. He was too cold to shiver. His… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Take the moon." "I don't understand." "Watch," said Zorya Polunochnaya. She raised her left hand and held it in front of the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Miles vanished beneath the wheels of the Winnebago. Shadow began to imagine that he was staying still while the American landscape moved… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“[T]he stars were laid out like worlds or like ideas, uncountable as the trees in a forest or the leaves on a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It was not pitch-black. It was the kind of cloudy night where the clouds seem to gather up light from distant streetlights… — 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