Actions Quotes Logo
Quote Image

I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.

~ Neil Gaiman ~

Actions Quotes Logo
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound

I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality wa...

Show More
Picture of Neil Gaiman
Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

More Neil Gaiman quotes

"

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

"

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

"

People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come ...

"

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, ...

"

I think all - or the ones thet I've run into - tend to have a faintly tenuous relationship with the real world, because so much is going on on the ins...

"

Different creatures have different eyes. Human eyes (unlike, say, a cat's eyes, or an octopus's) are only made to see one version of reality at a time...

"

But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?""Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking around the world. You start out w...

"

There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before.

"

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous...

"

The ocean was back in the pond, and the only knowledge I was left with, as if I had woken from a dream on a summer's day, was that it had not been lon...

"

Because it is the nature of Dreams, and ONLY of Dreams, to define Reality. Destiny is bound to existence. Death is limited by what she will or will no...