The world is always ending for someone. Itโs a good line. I give it to the father of the child. He says it to his wife. โThe world is always ending for someone,โ he says. She is trying to quieten the baby, and does not hear him. I doubt that it would matter if she did.
Neil GaimanShe really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did.
Neil GaimanDiscontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.
Neil GaimanOne describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory. You must remember this.
Neil Gaiman