The Graveyard Book Quotes

“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

“Kiss a lover,
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure.

Face your life,
It's pain,
It's pleasure,
Leave no path untaken.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?"
"Yes, someone did."
"A Man?"
"A Man."
"Which means," said Bod, "you're asking the wrong question."
Silas raised an eyebrow. "How so?"
"Well," said Bod. "If I go outside in the world, the question isn't who will keep me safe from him?"
"No?"
"No. It's who will keep him safe from me?”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“It was as if some people believed there was a divide between the books that you were permitted to enjoy and the books that were good for you, and I was expected to choose sides. We were all expected to choose sides. And I didn't believe it, and I still don't.

I was, and still am, on the side of books you love.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody”
― neil Gaiman

“...I wanted books and made no distinction between good books or bad, only between the ones I loved, the ones that spoke to my soul, and the ones I merely liked.”
― Neil Gaiman

“And I remembered. I would not be the person I am without the authors who made me what I am- the special ones, the wise ones, sometimes just the ones who got there first. It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.”
― Neil Gaiman

“It's like the people who believe they'll be happier if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't really work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Bod was obedient but curious.”
― Niel Gaiman

“Fear is contagious. You can catch it.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“(...) well, there's a girl I used to know, and I wasn't sure if I should find her and talk to her or if I should just forget about it.

(...)

Oh! You must go to her and implore her. You must call her your Terpsichore, your Echo, your Clytemnestra. You must write poems for her, mighty odes - I shall help you write them - and thus - and only thus - shall you win your true love's heart.”
― 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. Repeat after me, there are the living and the dead, there are day folk and night-folk, there are ghouls and mist-walkers, there are the high hunters and the Hounds of God. Also, there are solitary types."
"what are you?" asked Bod.
"I," she said sternly, "am Miss Lupescu.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“I do believe," he announced, scratching his dusty moustache, "that you are getting, if anything, worse. You are not Fading. You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elefant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies”
― Neil Gaiman