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“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

“Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“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

“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
― 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 can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“If you dare nothing,
then when the day is over,
nothing is all you will have gained.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they're scared for the fear to become real. Mo was terrified, and now Nick was too. ”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not remember.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“If I come back, it will be a place, but it won't be a home any longer.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“You're alive,
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

“You're alive...That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Too soon, the sun will rise.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say they're scared for the fear to become real”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Of all the organs, ' said Nehemiah Trot, 'the tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste our sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sour with the same tongue. Go to her! Talk to her!”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“You are ignorant, boy,” said Miss Lupescu. “This is bad. And you are content to be ignorant, which is worse.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“The fallen autumn leaves were slick beneath Bod's feet, and the mists blurred the edges of the world. Nothing was as clean-cut as he had thought it, a few minutes before.”
― 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

“It felt like a small forever.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Do not take revenge in the heat of the moment.”
― 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