–John Dee in Sandman #5 “Passengers”

“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 fooling a soul.” — Neil Gaiman (American Gods)

“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.” — Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys)

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the 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)

Thanks Jasper!

That night, after the shower, which could not wash what she had to do away, not really, she said to her husband. “I’m scared.”

“Of what?”

“That this job is making me hard. That it’s making me someone else. Someone I don’t know anymore.”

He pulled her close and held her, and they stayed touching, skin to skin, until dawn.

-From the short story Strange Little Girls in Fragile Things

“You have a good heart, Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.”

-Old Woman
(Neverwhere)

Congrats, Jasper!
More power to your business! Wooot! = )

“Tristane and Yvaine were happy together. Not foreverafter, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while.”
–Stardust

“Bodies are strange. Some people have real problems with what goes on inside them. You find out that inside someone you know there’s just mucous and meat and slime and bone. They menstruate, salivate, defecate and cry. You know? Sometimes it can just kill the romance.”

From Fables and Reflections in the story about Adam and his three wives. =)

-Death in Sandman, answering the so-called injustice of some living for just minutes while others lived for thousands of years (i.e. dead baby and fifteen-thousand-year-old Bernie Capaz).