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“it is impossible, he had found, if you rule, to do only good, for you cannot build anything without tearing something down, and even he could not care about every life, every dream, every population of every world.”
― Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

“Night is happening. All the nightmares that have come out when the sun goes down, since the cave times, when we huddled together in fear for safety and for warmth, are happening.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“I am not scared of bad people, of wicked evildoers, of monsters and creatures of the night. The people who scare me are the ones who are certain of their own rightness. The ones who know how to behave, and what their neighbors need to do to be on the side of the good.”
― Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

“truth is not in what happens but in what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.”
― Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction