Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book Quotes
You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?
If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.
Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.
If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.
And why does he talk so funny? Doesn't he mean squashed tomatoes?I don't think that they had tomatoes when he comes from, said Bod. And that's just how they talk then.
You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change.
Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us.
Name the different kinds of people, ’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living, ’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.
We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries.
A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy..
Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind, /Now slip, now slide, now move unseen, /Above, beneath, betwixt, between.
If he didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset him, ” Liza tells Bod.
...Come home, Bod.' ‘I think . . . I said things to Silas. He’ll be angry.’ ‘If he didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset him, ’ was all she said.