For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.
Neil GaimanFor some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.
Neil GaimanShe took my hands in her, then, and squeezed them. 'But you stayed where you were meant to be, and you didn't listen to them. Well done. That's quality, that is,' and she sounded proud. In that moment I forgot my hunger and I forgot my fear.
Neil GaimanI think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from bad places. It can be a safe place you go, like going on holiday, and it can be somewhere that, while you’ve escaped, actually teaches you things you need to know when you go back, that gives you knowledge and armour and tools to change the bad place you were in. So no, they’re not escapist. They’re escape.
Neil Gaiman