— Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
(Source: itseasyjusttolookaway)
"There was reality, and there was reality, and some things were more real than others."
"I spoke to a woman I used to love today, in a cafe in the desert. “I thought I was your destination,” she told me."
— Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky; Neil Gaiman
(Source: travels-with-charley)
"My grandpa sells condoms to sailors
He punctures the tips with a pin.
My grandma does back-street abortions
My God how the money rolls in!"
He punctures the tips with a pin.
My grandma does back-street abortions
My God how the money rolls in!"
— The Monarch of the Glen, Neil Gaiman
(Source: wellplacedstranger)
"You don’t have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right."
— Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
(Source: carolsworld)
"All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them."
— American Gods, Neil Gaiman
(Source: anatomyofmelancholy)
"It was a nice day.
All the days had been nice. There had been rather more than seven of them so far, and rain hadn’t been invented yet. But clouds massing east of Eden suggested that the first thunderstorm was on its way, and it was going to be a big one."
All the days had been nice. There had been rather more than seven of them so far, and rain hadn’t been invented yet. But clouds massing east of Eden suggested that the first thunderstorm was on its way, and it was going to be a big one."
— Opening line of Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
(Source: sirterrypratchett)
"Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume or lives."
— American Gods, Neil Gaiman
(Source: davidbowieinventedlipstick)
"Of course, fairy tales are transmissible. You can catch them, or be infected by them. They are the currency that we share with those who walked the world before ever we were here."
— Fragile Things’ Introduction, Neil Gaiman
(via fuckyeahgaiman)
"They were kissing. Put like that, and you could be forgiven for presuming that this was a normal kiss, all lips and skin and possibly even a little tongue. You’d miss how he smiled, how his eyes glowed. And then, after the kiss was done, how he stood, like a man who had just discovered the art of standing and had figured out how to do it better than anyone else who would ever come along."
— Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
(Source: deathistheroadtoawe, via fuckyeahgaiman)
"It does help, to be a writer, to have the sort of crazed ego that doesn’t allow for failure. The best reaction to a rejection slip is a sort of wild-eyed madness, an evil grin, and sitting yourself in front of the keyboard muttering “Okay, you bastards. Try rejecting this!” and then writing something so unbelievably brilliant that all other writers will disembowel themselves with their pens upon reading it, because there’s nothing left to write."
— Neil Gaiman, On Writing
(Source: journal.neilgaiman.com, via fuckyeahgaiman)
