He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity.

Neil Gaiman

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Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

growing-up teacher book

Take one, and you cannot take the other. But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?

"Some things may change," said Wednesday, abruptly. "People, howe... by Neil Gaiman

"Some things may change," said Wednesday, abruptly. "People, however... People stay the same."

said may people

If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that could be anything, it is easier.

visible easier ifs

When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It’s scientific. That’s how I want to be remembered. I want to shine.

shining diamond want

Something told him that something was coming to an end. Not the world, exactly. Just the summer. There would be other summers, but there would never be one like this. Ever again.

would-be summer world

Everything that is,casts a shadow by Neil Gaiman

Everything that is,casts a shadow

I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem? by Neil Gaiman

I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?

selfish bored problem

I'll find you. Don't worry. Just be on your own and I'll find you... by Neil Gaiman

I'll find you. Don't worry. Just be on your own and I'll find you.

Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're reading the wrong thing. There is no such thing as the wrong thing to be reading and no bad fiction for kids.

reading kids children

I am amiable. Vague. Puzzled. Messy-haired. by Neil Gaiman

I am amiable. Vague. Puzzled. Messy-haired.

amiable messy vague

The lower you start, the more opportunities you have. by Neil Gaiman

The lower you start, the more opportunities you have.

I'm intrigued with figuring out the places [where] the horrible and the beautiful meet - that aesthetic fascinates me.

aesthetic horrible beautiful

Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants.

light should-have night

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good mad... by Neil Gaiman

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.

magic dream years

Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over. There are tales that are older than most countries, tales that have long outlasted the cultures and the buildings in which they were first told.

long country book

Mostly you are what they think you are. by Neil Gaiman

Mostly you are what they think you are.

Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.

parenting age children

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all h... by Neil Gaiman

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

It does not matter where you come from, if you walk toward the truth you will reach it, whatever path you take.

where-you-come matter doe