SandmanQuotes - Network

If you want the quotation file, it's still available in XML format from...

If you want the quotation file, it's still available in XML format from <https://github.com/akuchling/quotations/blob/master/neil-gaiman.xml>; I don't intend to delete it.

Please direct any comments about this to me at @akuchling. Thanks for following this account; I hope you enjoyed it. And thanks to the admins of botsin.space, for providing a home to so many busy accounts for so long.

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ANNOUNCEMENT: botsin.space, the instance hosting this account, will become read-only on Dec. 15, and may disappear completely after March...

ANNOUNCEMENT: botsin.space, the instance hosting this account, will become read-only on Dec. 15, and may disappear completely after March 2025. Here's the original post from The Management: https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/

Given the recent allegations of sexual assault and coerced sex by multiple women against Neil Gaiman, I don't want to resume posting quotations somewhere else, and am content to let the account dissolve into the digital aether.

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“So what I want to know is, when I'm asleep, do I really remember how to fly? And forget how when I wake up? Or am I just dreaming I...

“So what I want to know is, when I'm asleep, do I really remember how to fly? And forget how when I wake up? Or am I just dreaming I can fly?”

“When you dream, sometimes you remember. When you wake, you always forget.”

“But that's not fair...”

“No.”

— Chloe and Dream, in SANDMAN #43: “Brief Lives:3”

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If you bring me back to life, my death will have no meaning. I had a fine existence. I was a good place. I spent a little time in the waking...

If you bring me back to life, my death will have no meaning. I had a fine existence. I was a good place. I spent a little time in the waking world. I even fell in love, once, a little. I lived a good life and it ended. Would you take that away from me?

— Fiddler's Green, in SANDMAN #70, part one of “The Wake”

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Such a train it becomes, oh! a gleaming black and silver Deco dream of a train that clacks along the silver tracks with the unchanging...

Such a train it becomes, oh! a gleaming black and silver Deco dream of a train that clacks along the silver tracks with the unchanging rhythm of a nursery rhyme, and perhaps, if you listened hard enough, you could imagine that you could tease words from the pulsing clatter...

— Dream's conveyance, in SANDMAN #67: “The Kindly Ones:11”

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Heritage Auctions: "Bestselling novelist and Sandman creator Neil Gaiman spent most of Thursday at Heritage Auctions’ world...

Heritage Auctions: "Bestselling novelist and Sandman creator Neil Gaiman spent most of Thursday at Heritage Auctions’ world headquarters in Dallas, offering more than 125 prized pieces from his collection — everything from original comic artwork to signed books, a Coraline puppet used in the film to limited-edition sculptures, handmade Christmas stories given as gifts, to the awards he received.”

https://www.ha.com/heritage-auctions-press-releases-and-news/the-day-neil-gaiman-swapped-his-original-comic-art-comic-books-and-collectibles-for-more-than-1-million.s?releaseId=4927

(Via File 770's news Roundup: https://file770.com/pixel-scroll-3-19-24-oceans-elevenses/ )

The process was slow at first, my lord. Things in the dreamworld began to transmute. I was aware of it in my library... Slowly, the words...

The process was slow at first, my lord. Things in the dreamworld began to transmute. I was aware of it in my library... Slowly, the words began to fade. Some time after you vanished, my books became bound volumes of blank paper. The next day the whole library was gone. I never found it again...

— Lucien, in SANDMAN #2: “Imperfect Hosts”

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During your stay on this Earth the faerie have afforded me much diversion, and entertainment. Now you have left for your own haunts. And I...

During your stay on this Earth the faerie have afforded me much diversion, and entertainment. Now you have left for your own haunts. And I would repay you all for the amusement. And more. They shall not forget you. That was important to me: that King Auberon and Queen Titania will be remembered by mortals, until this age is gone.

— Dream, in SANDMAN #19: “A Midsummer Night's Dream”

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“Wanda?” “Yeah?” “You've got a thingie.” “Hazel, didn't anyone ever tell you that it's not polite to draw...

“Wanda?”

“Yeah?”

“You've got a thingie.”

“Hazel, didn't anyone ever tell you that it's not polite to draw attention to a lady's shortcomings?”

— Hazel and Wanda, in SANDMAN #34: “Bad Moon Rising”

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Uh, Father, Magus. I've found something that may cast some light on our guest. In the _Paginarum Fulvarum_... — Alex Burgess, in...

Uh, Father, Magus. I've found something that may cast some light on our guest. In the _Paginarum Fulvarum_...

— Alex Burgess, in SANDMAN #1: “Sleep of the Just”

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She looked at me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don't know. She probably didn't even know I was there. But I'll...

She looked at me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don't know. She probably didn't even know I was there. But I'll always love her. All my life.

— Brant Tucker sees Death, in SANDMAN #56: “World's End”

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“Matthew. When you were a man, were you able to drive a motor vehicle?” “Could I? Hey, I killed myself drunk driving, didn't I? I...

“Matthew. When you were a man, were you able to drive a motor vehicle?”

“Could I? Hey, I killed myself drunk driving, didn't I? I mean, the first time.”

“I am not convinced that is any recommendation. However...”

— Dream and Matthew, in SANDMAN #45: “Brief Lives:5”

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Neil Gaiman's favorite toys were mostly books. His favorite game was to find somewhere inaccessible and out of the way, and go read...

Neil Gaiman's favorite toys were mostly books. His favorite game was to find somewhere inaccessible and out of the way, and go read there for hours. He knew that he could go to Narnia or Oz or Cimmeria or New York if he just said the right thing or rubbed the right magic charm, but it just never happened.

— Neil Gaiman's biography, in the SANDMAN “A Game of You” TPB.

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“So... where are you from?” “Seattle. You?” “The Necropolis Litharge.” — Bathroom conversation, in SANDMAN #52:...

“So... where are you from?”

“Seattle. You?”

“The Necropolis Litharge.”

— Bathroom conversation, in SANDMAN #52: “Cluracan's Tale”

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“Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least...

“Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?”

“Mm. It all sounds suspiciously post-modern to me, Grandpa. Are you sure this is really a story from the old country?”

— Grandfather and granddaughter in SANDMAN #38: “The Hunt”

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Each reveller, more resplendent than the last, was a symphony in blue, a confection in scarlet, a study in olive or vermilion or white, for...

Each reveller, more resplendent than the last, was a symphony in blue, a confection in scarlet, a study in olive or vermilion or white, for the Count had decreed that the color black was forbidden on his island.

It carried overtones with which he was not entirely comfortable.

— From “Death and Venice” in ENDLESS NIGHTS

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I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from...

I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend.

— Destruction, in SANDMAN #48: “Journey's End”

All around me darkness gathers, fading is the sun that shone, we must speak of other matters, you can be me when I'm gone... — The...

All around me darkness gathers, fading is the sun that shone, we must speak of other matters, you can be me when I'm gone...

— The train's clattering, in SANDMAN #67: “The Kindly Ones:11”

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It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out...

It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.

— Destruction, in SANDMAN #72, part three of “The Wake”

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“Nothing to fear? I thought I heard the beating of mighty wings, as in a nightmare that rode me when I was a boy...” “You do. But have...

“Nothing to fear? I thought I heard the beating of mighty wings, as in a nightmare that rode me when I was a boy...”

“You do. But have no fear of them.”

— Shakespeare and Dream, in SANDMAN #75, “The Tempest”

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