“To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost unknown in this day.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow had made a face, but he had started to read, and had found himself hooked against his will.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“This is a bad land for gods," said Shadow. As an opening statement it wasn't Friends, Romans, countrymen, but it would do.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’ ‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow felt like a pea being flicked between three cups, or a card being shuffled through a deck.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The first thing was “I love you,” because it’s a good thing to say if you can mean it, and Shadow did.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Mister whoever-the-fuck you are,” said Shadow, just loud enough to be heard over the din of the engines, “there isn't enough money… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“She patted him on the arm. “You’re fucked up, Mister. But you’re cool.” “I believe that’s what they call the human condition,”… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow looked at the corpse of the baby deer. He decided that if he were a real woodsman, he would slice off… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“No, it was you losing the little golden sun killed me, Shadow, killed me dead as sure as water’s wet and days… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow had noticed that you only ever catch one episode of shows you don't watch, over and over, years apart: he thought… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow felt deeply uncomfortable: it was like watching an old wolf stalking a fawn too young to know that if it did… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to her. The first thing was "I love you,"… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow turned, slowly, streaming images of himself as he moved, frozen moments, each him captured in a fraction of a second, every… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith," said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. "Loki," he said. "Loki Lie-smith." "You're… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow walked the meadow, making his own slow circles around the trunk of the tree, gradually widening his circle. Sometimes he would… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“What am I doing here?” asked Shadow. “In Lakeside, I mean. Not in the world.” — 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
“The Herodotus thing. It doesn’t mean that the dead are happy,” said Shadow. “It means that you can’t judge the shape of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Shadow looked down at the girl on the table. “What happened to her?” he asked. “Poor taste in boyfriends,” said Jacquel. “It’s… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“That’s when I miss you most. When you’re here. When you aren’t here, when you’re just a ghost from the past or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow thought there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough,… — 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
