“And then they were at Tristran's old home, where his sister waited for him, and there was a steaming breakfast on the… — 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
“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
“Although I was an imaginative child, prone to nightmares, I had persuaded my parents to take me to Madame Tussauds waxworks in… — 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
“Your mother wouldn't describe a combination of Brad Pitt, Bill Gates, and Prince William as 'quite a catch.' There is nobody walking… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Back in my day, we had it all set up. You line up when you die, and you answer for your evil… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I think that there should have been some nice wumpires," said my sister, wistfully. "Nice, handsome, misunderstood wumpires." "There were not," said… — neil gaiman Copy Share Image
“This book started like this. My son, who is called Michael or Mike these days, but was Mikey back then, was angry… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Loki makes the world more interesting but less safe. He is the father of monsters, the author of woes, the sly god.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The world is always ending for someone. It’s a good line. I give it to the father of the child. He says… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Coraline tried drawing the mist. After ten minutes of drawing she still had a white sheet of paper with "MIST" written on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“At home, my father ate all the most burnt pieces of toast. 'Yum!' he'd say, and 'Charcoal! Good for you!' and 'Burnt… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You wouldn't have to wash," said Brian, whose parents forced him to wash a great deal more than he thought could possibly… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My parents would frisk me before family events, and find the book, and lock it in the car. And then be disappointed… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“But she knew also that it would not be wise to begin her life with Tristan by arguing with his mother.” — 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. You will… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away. — 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
“Coraline’s father stopped working and made them all dinner. Coraline was disgusted. “Daddy,” she said, “you’ve made a recipe again.” “It’s leek… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The sailors do not mind the arrangement, for they know that this way there will, at the least, be one person who,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There was toast, too, cooked beneath the grill as my father cooked it, with homemade blackberry jam. There was the best cup… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. Shadow” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Don't be silly," said Coraline. "I'm going back for them because they are my parents. And if they noticed I was gone… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It was as bad as the summer that her mother had taken the training wheels off Coraline's bicycle;but then, back then, in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I don’t understand parents. Honestly, I don’t think anybody ever does.” — 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
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
“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
“Our deal's over," said Charlie. "I brought your feather. I want my brother. You took him. I want him back. Anansi's bloodline… — 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
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