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  • #1
    Alice Hoffman
    “Believers with nothing to believe in.”
    Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

  • #2
    Milly Williamson
    “Vampire fans read the vampire not as death but as possibility”
    Milly Williamson

  • #3
    Neil Gaiman
    “Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

  • #4
    Neil Gaiman
    “What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #5
    Neil Gaiman
    “Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

  • #6
    Neil Gaiman
    “Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
    Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic

  • #7
    Neil Gaiman
    “Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #8
    Neil Gaiman
    “I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #9
    Neil Gaiman
    “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

  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
    'Cats don't have names,' it said.
    'No?' said Coraline.
    'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #11
    Neil Gaiman
    “Books were safer than other people anyway.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #12
    Neil Gaiman
    “Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #13
    Neil Gaiman
    “He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”
    Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

  • #14
    Neil Gaiman
    “All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #15
    Neil Gaiman
    “Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #16
    Neil Gaiman
    “Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you can betray them with your tongue. (from "Instructions")”
    Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

  • #17
    Neil Gaiman
    “Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #18
    Neil Gaiman
    “Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.”
    Neil Gaiman, Stardust

  • #19
    Neil Gaiman
    “Biting's excellent. It's like kissing - only there is a winner.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #20
    Neil Gaiman
    “I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #21
    Neil Gaiman
    “You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #22
    Neil Gaiman
    “Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #23
    J.M. Barrie
    “Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?”
    J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #24
    “Med ansiktet tett inntil spegelen studerte ho irisen rundt pupillane, landskapet der inne som gjorde at ho kunne sjå, den grøne sirkelen som leidde inn til tankane hennar.”
    Margit Walsø

  • #25
    “kvelden kom for å beskytte dei som hadde noko å skjule.”
    Margit Walsø, Kjære Voltaire

  • #26
    Christiane V. Felscherinow
    “Det hadde begynt å regne, og jeg visste ikke om dråpene i ansiktet hans var regndråper eller tårer.”
    Christiane F., Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo

  • #27
    Anne Rice
    “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
    Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

  • #28
    Anne Rice
    “A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.”
    Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

  • #29
    Anne Rice
    “Sometimes hate and love serve exactly the same purpose.”
    Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief

  • #30
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
    Edgar Allen Poe



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