148 quotes
Writers live in houses other people built.
Trigger Warning (2015)
“See?” said the boy. There was that precocious amusement again; but all kids can be insufferable sometimes, when they think they know something you don’t. It’s probably good for them.
Trigger Warning (2015)
Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic.
The Books of Magic : The Invisible Labyrinth (1990)
I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else.
“You’ve a good heart,” she told him. “Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go.” Then she shook her head. “But mostly, it’s not.”
Neverwhere (1996)
Ragnarok is coming. When the sky splits asunder and the dark powers of Muspell march out on their war journey, Frey will wish he still had his sword.
Norse Mythology (2017)
There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do.
American Gods (2001)
I felt a bit better. Because if Neil Armstrong felt like an imposter, maybe everyone did.
Even the better protected files corrupt,
and the best protected corrupt absolutely.
Smoke and Mirrors (1998)
There was reality and there was reality; and some things were more real than others.
Anansi Boys (2005)
It was England in the autumn; the sun was, by definition, something that only happened when it wasn't cloudy or raining.
Anansi Boys (2005)
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
Learning how to be strong, to feel her own emotions and not another’s, had been hard; but once you learned the trick of it, you did not forget.
Trigger Warning (2015)
You cannot seek Destruction and return unscathed.
“It can’t make things any worse.”
“If there’s one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse,” said my friend.
Fragile Things (2006)
But where does contagion end and art begin?
Fragile Things (2006)
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
Behind every Chesterton sentence there was someone painting with words, and it seemed to me that at the end of any particularly good sentence or any perfectly-put paradox, you could hear the author, somewhere behind the scenes, giggling with delight.