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  1. Neil Gaiman _ Coraline

    Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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  2. Neil Gaiman _ Good Omens: The Nice and

    Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide.
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  3. Neil Gaiman _ Brief Lives

    I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.
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  4. Neil Gaiman _ The Ocean at the End of the

    Oh, monsters are scared', said Lettie. 'And as for grown-ups...' She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a finger. Then, 'I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.'...We sat there, side by side, on the old wooden bench, not saying anything. I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long books. The kind with no pictures or conversations.
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  5. Neil Gaiman _ Coraline

    It was true: the other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. In the other mother's button eyes, Coraline knew that she was a possession, nothing more. A tolerated pet, whose behavior was no longer amusing.
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  6. Neil Gaiman _ Neverwhere

    Islington smiled superciliously. "Lucifer?" It said. "Lucifer was an idiot. It wound up lord and master of nothing at all." The marquis grinned. "And you wound up lord and master of two thugs and a roomful of candles?
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  7. Neil Gaiman _ The Graveyard Book

    It must be good to have somewhere that you belong. Somewhere that's home.
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  8. Neil Gaiman _ Preludes & Nocturnes

    As I wouldn't wear a costume, I couldn't imagine him wanting to wear one. And seeing that the greater part of my wardrobe is black {It's a sensible colour. It goes with anything. Well, anything black}{...}.
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  9. Neil Gaiman _ Coraline

    It is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.
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  10. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and new people, new readers, need to be brought into the conversation too.
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  11. Neil Gaiman _ The Ocean at the End of the

    Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.
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  12. Neil Gaiman _ Good Omens: The Nice and

    A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone from Des Moines, with an artist's impression of the bun; how Elvis Presley was recently sighted working in a Burger Lord in Des Moines; how listening to Elvis records cured a Des Moines housewife's cancer; how the spate of werewolves infesting the Midwest are the offspring of noble pioneer women raped by Bigfoot; and that Elvis was taken by Space Aliens in 1976 because he was too good for this world. Remarkably, one of these stories is indeed true.
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