--- title: "13 Safe Quotes By Neil Gaiman" description: "13 Safe quotes by Neil Gaiman. Plus more from Neil Gaiman and more Safe sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/761/neil-gaiman-29_enough_you-ve-a-good-heart-sometimes-that-s-eno_2527102.jpg" --- > [You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/you-ve-a-good-heart-sometimes-that-s-enough-to-see-you-safe-wherever/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/761/neil-gaiman-29_enough_you-ve-a-good-heart-sometimes-that-s-eno_2527102.jpg) > [“I felt safe. It was as if the essence of grandmotherliness had been condensed into that one place, that one time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/i-felt-safe-it-was-as-if-the-essence-of-grandmotherliness-had-been/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a45/neil-gaiman-29_quote_i-felt-safe-it-was-as-if-the-essence-of_2237217.jpg) > [Take one, and you cannot take the other," she said. "But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/take-one-and-you-cannot-take-the-other-she-said-but-neither-path-is/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd6/neil-gaiman-29_fine_take-one-and-you-cannot-take-the-other-s_2952307.jpg) > [Take one, and you cannot take the other. But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/take-one-and-you-cannot-take-the-other-but-neither-path-is-safe-which/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/896/neil-gaiman-29_fine_take-one-and-you-cannot-take-the-other-b_1036379.jpg) > [The converse held reassuringly true: daylight was safe. Daylight was always safe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/the-converse-held-reassuringly-true-daylight-was-safe-daylight-was/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c5/neil-gaiman-29_daylight_the-converse-held-reassuringly-true-dayl_952897.jpg) > [He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/he-was-walking-into-faerie-in-search-of-a-fallen-star-with-no-idea/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d67/neil-gaiman-29_astronomy_he-was-walking-into-faerie-in-search-of_2182872.jpg) > [It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/it-s-just-harder-out-there-in-the-world-of-the-living-and-we-cannot/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/411/neil-gaiman-29_adventure_it-s-just-harder-out-there-in-the-world_1579558.jpg) > [But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/but-libraries-are-about-freedom-freedom-to-read-freedom-of-ideas/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d03/neil-gaiman-29_access_but-libraries-are-about-freedom-freedom_566547.jpg) > [This is not a place, after all. It is BETWEEN places. This is NOWHERE. A brief thought: I could stay here, abandon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/this-is-not-a-place-after-all-it-is-between-places-this-is-nowhere-a/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b87/neil-gaiman-29_abandon_this-is-not-a-place-after-all-it-is-betw_1338694.jpg) > [Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?" "Yes, someone did." "A Man?" "A Man." "Which means," said Bod, "you're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/someone-killed-my-mother-and-my-father-and-my-sister-yes-someone-did/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/749/neil-gaiman-29_asking_someone-killed-my-mother-and-my-father-a_1720851.jpg) > [If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/if-i-m-writing-a-novel-i-ll-probably-get-up-in-the-morning-do-email/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c60/neil-gaiman-29_blogs_if-i-m-writing-a-novel-i-ll-probably-get_633299.jpg) > [I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/i-think-that-pretty-much-every-form-of-fiction-i-d-include-fantasy/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52c/neil-gaiman-29_epic_i-think-that-pretty-much-every-form-of-f_1848554.jpg) > [When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/when-we-hold-each-other-in-the-darkness-it-doesn-t-make-the-darkness/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/109/neil-gaiman-29_bad-thing_when-we-hold-each-other-in-the-darkness_1303097.jpg) ## Other authors on Safe ## More by Neil Gaiman > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/people-talk-about-books-that-write-themselves-and-it-s-a-lie-books/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/like-all-sentient-beings-fat-charlie-had-a-weirdness-quotient-for/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/shadow-crawled-across-the-floor-to-the-yellow-foam-rubber-pad-and/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [ “\[T\]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/t-hey-could-not-help-being-amused-every-time-another-little-human/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [So many things to see, people to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/so-many-things-to-see-people-to-do/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.’ – Ben Franklin,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/three-may-keep-a-secret-if-two-of-them-are-dead-ben-franklin/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/you-need-more-than-a-beginning-if-you-re-going-to-start-a-book-if-all/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/you-can-tell-the-date-of-an-old-science-fiction-novel-by-every-word/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“The quickest way is sometimes the longest.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/the-quickest-way-is-sometimes-the-longest/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/they-were-spells-spelled-with-words-to-make-worlds-waiting-for-me-in/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/finish-what-you-re-writing-whatever-you-have-to-do-to-finish-it/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [What do stars do? They shine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/what-do-stars-do-they-shine/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/what-asked-mr-croup-do-you-want-what-asked-the-marquis-de-carabas-a/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/you-get-on-with-your-own-life-lettie-gave-it-to-you-you-just-have-to/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/eyes-will-not-see-you-minds-will-not-hold-you-where-you-are-is/) [neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/safe/neil-gaiman/#itemlist", "name": "13 Safe Quotes By Neil Gaiman", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. 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