There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn’t belong to me… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
This is the only country in the world, that worries about what it is. The rest of them know what they are.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We have to get the... the thing I got... to the Angel. And then he'll tell Door about her family, and he'll… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He felt her heart beating against his chest. The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
This is the only country in the world," said Wednesday, into the stillness, "that worries about what it is." "What?" "The rest… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I know not whether you came to me or I to you. Not whether it was a dream, asleep or awake. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer Show part is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out… — 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
It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image