Eye Quotes by Neil Gaiman

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

— Neil Gaiman

She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have…

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To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.

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There's a tale in the Caballa that suggests that the Angel of Death is so beautiful that upon seeing it (or him,…

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I once read that you die because you see the Angel of Death, and you fall in love. And you fall in…

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“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through…

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I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do…

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You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface…

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Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing…

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I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our…

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If you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you’d be wrong. He’d be the other one.…

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All cats can see futures, and see echoes of the past. We can watch the passage of creatures from the infinity of…

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You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved…

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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…

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Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the…

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It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out…

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The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with…

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You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved…

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She's not dead. You didn't kill her, nor did the hunger birds, although they did their best to get to you through…

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"Only write what you know" is very good advice. I do my best to stick to it. I wrote about gods and…

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My bed was pushed up hard against the wall just below the window. I loved to sleep with the windows open. Rainy…

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She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of…

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Now Coraline," said Miss Spink, "what's your name?" "Coraline," said Coraline. "And we don't know each other, do we?" Coraline looked at…

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None of us exist in a world that is the same world that any of the rest of us live in. The…

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Never a possession, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine: Desire is…

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I have world class photographic red-eye pretty much all the time. As a general rule, if it's taken with a flash, I…

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So, having found a lady, could you not have come to her aid, or left her alone? Why drag her into your…

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There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is…

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THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places…

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Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You…

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She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there…

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How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline. The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall,…

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They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was…

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It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the…

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It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out…

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I have a feeling,’ he said, ‘I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the…

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There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and…

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Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt…

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They were kissing. Put like that, and you could be forgiven for presuming that this was a normal kiss, all lips and…

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