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Shadow Quotes by Neil Gaiman

38 Shadow quotes by Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman gives Shadow a quiet, curious voice as it moves across a room, pulls a blanket over itself, and wonders about what is real. The quotes show Shadow questioning reality, feeling missing, and being told to believe everything, while also noticing how every object casts a shadow. These moments blend everyday scenes with deeper thoughts.

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Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

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Everything that is,casts a shadow

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Life without love is a shadow of things that might be

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“And he showed Shadow how to do the thing.”

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“To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost unknown in this day.”

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“The first thing was “I love you,” because it’s a good thing to say if you can mean it, and Shadow did.”

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“What am I doing here?” asked Shadow. “In Lakeside, I mean. Not in the world.”

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“Shadow felt like a pea being flicked between three cups, or a card being shuffled through a deck.”

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None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think…

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You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.

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“Shadow had made a face, but he had started to read, and had found himself hooked against his will.”

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“This is a bad land for gods," said Shadow. As an opening statement it wasn't Friends, Romans, countrymen, but it would do.”

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“Shadow thought about how you made the moon seem to come out of the sky and become a silver dollar, and what…

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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are…

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“The Herodotus thing. It doesn’t mean that the dead are happy,” said Shadow. “It means that you can’t judge the shape of…

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“Shadow had noticed that you only ever catch one episode of shows you don't watch, over and over, years apart: he thought…

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“No, it was you losing the little golden sun killed me, Shadow, killed me dead as sure as water’s wet and days…

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“Shadow felt deeply uncomfortable: it was like watching an old wolf stalking a fawn too young to know that if it did…

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Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to her. The first thing was "I love you,"…

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“She patted him on the arm. “You’re fucked up, Mister. But you’re cool.” “I believe that’s what they call the human condition,”…

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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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“Shadow walked the meadow, making his own slow circles around the trunk of the tree, gradually widening his circle. Sometimes he would…

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The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd…

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“We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or…

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“Shadow turned, slowly, streaming images of himself as he moved, frozen moments, each him captured in a fraction of a second, every…

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I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In…

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Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain…

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We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or…

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You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’ ‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark.

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“Mister whoever-the-fuck you are,” said Shadow, just loud enough to be heard over the din of the engines, “there isn't enough money…

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“Shadow looked at the corpse of the baby deer. He decided that if he were a real woodsman, he would slice off…

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“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed…

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“That’s when I miss you most. When you’re here. When you aren’t here, when you’re just a ghost from the past or…

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“Shadow thought there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough,…

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What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass…

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The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes…

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Shadow looked down at the girl on the table. “What happened to her?” he asked. “Poor taste in boyfriends,” said Jacquel. “It’s…

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“It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or…

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What do stars do? They shine.

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You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody”