Neil Gaiman, Stardust Quotes

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.

You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.

Yeah, you and me, we can ride on a starIf you stay with me, girlWe can rule the worldYeah, you and me, we can light up the skyIf you stay by my sideWe can rule the world

There was a moment of hesitation, and then her mouth opened against his, and her tongue slid into his mouth, and he was, under the strange stars, utterly, irrevocably lost.

There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before.

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be, ' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.

Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?

And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...

The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air--a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves.

You are young, and in love, " said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.

I am the most miserable person who ever lived, " he said... "You are young, and in love, " said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.