Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Fuck you," said Czernobog. "Fuck you and fuck your mother and fuck the fucking horse you fucking rode in on.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Up the narrow stairs and into the kitchen. Rosie's mother looked around and made a face as if to indicate that it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I won’t live forever,” sniffed her mother, in a way that implied that she had every intention of living forever, getting harder… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline. The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?" "Yes, someone did." "A Man?" "A Man." "Which means," said Bod, "you're… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Suppose we pick a name for him, eh?" Caius Pompeius stepped over and eyed the child. "He looks a little like my… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a… — 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