2,216 Quotes by Neil Gaiman

A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people’s heads. Books are good that way.

There’s an expression, deja vu, that means that you feel like you’ve been somewhere before, that you’ve somehow already dreamed it or experienced it in your mind.

Any way, death is so final, isn’t it? “Is it?” asked Richard. “Sometimes,” said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down.

Sexton: I think the whole world’s gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It’s always like this. You probably just don’t get out enough.

On the first day Coraline’s family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and they warned her to be sure she kept away from it. So Coraline set off to explore for it, so that she knew where it was, to keep away from it properly.

When you love something you just don’t want to stop talking about it.

Real life doesn’t have to be convincing, but fiction does.

I believe that anyone who claims to know what’s going on will lie about the little things too.

It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a house but only the idea of a house – and the person who had had the idea, she was certain, was not a good person.