"She wondered if she’d feel any different when she was thirteen. She doubted it. Jenny distrusted birthdays; despite the presents, she was wary of them. You go to sleep one age, wake up another, with no say in the matter."
— Wall: a Prologue, Neil Gaiman
(Source: crackintheuniverse)
“So there’s some young lady. Has she sent you here to seek your fortune? That used to be very popular. You’d get young fellers wanderin’ all over, looking for the hoard of gold that some poor wyrm or ogre had taken absolute centuries to accumulate.”
“No. Not my fortune. It was more of a promise I made to this lady I mentioned. I… we were talking, and I was promising her things, and we saw this falling star, and I promised to bring it to her. And it fell…” he waved an arm toward a mountain range somewhere in the general direction of the sunrise “…over there.”
The little hairy man scratched his chin. Or his muzzle; it might well have been his muzzle. “You know what I would do?”
“No,” said Tristan, hope rising within him, “what?”
The little man wiped his nose. “I’d tell her to go shove her face in the pig pen, and go out and find another one who’ll kiss you without askin’ for the earth. You’re bound to find one. You can hardly throw half a brick back in the lands you come from without hittin’ one.”
Stardust, Neil Gaiman
(Source: theimperfectgal)
"When I was very young, somebody — maybe it was a squirrel, they talk so much, or a magpie, or maybe a fishie — told me that Pan owned all this forest. Well, not owned owned. Not like he would sell the forest to someone else, or put a wall all around it … It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go."
— Stardust, Neil Gaiman (via dearclotho)
"Everlasting life? I imagine it would be kind of lonely. Well, maybe if you had someone to share it with. Someone you loved. Then it might be different."
— Stardust, Neil Gaiman (via dollanachronism)
(via dollanachronism)
"I come from the village of Wall, where there lives a young lady named Victoria Forester, who is without peer among women, and it is to her, and to her alone, that I have given my heart."
— Stardust, Neil Gaiman (via ernestorivera)
"Tristan and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while."
— Stardust, Neil Gaiman
