2,216 Quotes by Neil Gaiman

This book is the book you have just read. It’s done.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

Hey," said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are." The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and it stared at him with bright eyes."Say 'Nevermore,'" said Shadow."Fuck you," said the raven.

In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.