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Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman

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

“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.”

“I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.”

“I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.”

“So the day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding. ”

“When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.”

“The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.”

“There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads taller than Mr. Croup; second, Mr. Croup has eyes of a faded china blue, while Mr. Vandemar's eyes are brown; third, while Mr. Vandemar fashioned the rings he wears on his right hand out of the skulls of four ravens, Mr. Croup has no obvious jewelery; fourth, Mr. Croup likes words, while Mr. Vandemar is always hungry. Also, they look nothing at all alike.”

“He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.”

“So many things to see, people to do.”

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Book Keywords:

humor, sanity, insanity, paraphrased, life, goodness, fallen-angels, heart, crises, living

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