— Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
(Source: itseasyjusttolookaway)
"There was reality, and there was reality, and some things were more real than others."
"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)
"Human eyes are only made to see one version of reality at a time"
— Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
(Source: jenintheskywithdiamonds)
"There are myth-places. They exist, each in their own way. Some of them are overlaid on the world; others exist beneath the world as it is, like an underpainting. There are mountains. They are the rocky places you will reach before you come to the cliffs that border the end of the world, and there are caves in those mountains, deep caves that were inhabited long before the first man walked the earth. They are inhabited still."
— Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman (via blanketboy)
"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 (via monkeyswearingpants)
"Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look so pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each."
— Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman(via kicksandgiggles)
"You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they make love in their first year, and take a coin out for every time that they make love in the years that follow, the jar will never be emptied.’"
— Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman (via midwesterndays)
"It is to Fat Charlie’s credit that he did not, as deep down he might have wished to, burst into tears or wail or collapse in on himself like a problematic soufflé."
— Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman (via momentsinamber)
(Source: crowleyshouseplant)
