Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"... Come home, Bod.' โI think . . . I said things to Silas. Heโll be angry.โ โIf he didnโt care about you, you couldnโt upset him,โ was all she said."
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"... Come home, Bod.' โI think . . . I said things to Silas. Heโll be angry.โ โIf he didnโt care about you, you couldnโt upset him,โ was all she said."
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"If he didnโt care about you, you couldnโt upset him,โ Liza tells Bod."
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between."
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"How old are you"About fifteen, I think. Though I still feel the same as I always did," Bod said, but Mother Slaughter interrupted, "And I still feels like I done when I was a tiny slip of a thing, making daisy chains in the old pasture. You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it."
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"You're weird,' she said. 'You don't have any friends.''I didn't come here for friends,' said Bod truthfully. "i came here to learn.'Mo's nose twitched. "Do you know how weird that is' she asked. "Nobody comes to school to learn. I mean, you come because you have to."
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"Traveling through the Dragon's Den, it has just been explained that Haroun, the Ifrit, has been caught in a mirror trap. Here is the passage that follows:"So," said Silas. "Now there are only three of us."And a pig," said Kandar [the mummy]"Why" Asked Miss Lupescu, with a wolf-tongue, through wolf teeth. "Why the Pig"It's lucky," said Kandar. Miss Lupescu growled, unconvinced."Did Haroun have a pig" asked Kandar, simply."
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy.."
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries."
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas."
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"You are almost never cool to your children."
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away."
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us."
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?"
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"There are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would be to hasten their transition to another plane of existence."They kill themselves, you mean" said Bod. He was about eight years old, wide-eyed and inquisitive, and he was not stupid."Indeed."Does it work? Are they happier dead"Sometimes. Mostly, no. It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean."
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"Leave no path untaken."
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"Wherever you go, you take yourself with you."
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion."
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change."
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open."
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"Youโre as plain as the nose on your face,โ said Mr. Pennyworth. โAnd your nose is remarkably obvious. As is the rest of your face, young man. As are you. For the sake of all that is holy, empty your mind. Now. You are an empty alleyway. You are a vacant doorway. You are nothing. Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody."
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
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