Neverwhere Quotes

“Con las ciudades sucede lo mismo que con las personas, señor Vandemar - dijo el señor Croup, melindroso - el estado de sus intestinos es de vital importancia.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“He couldn't understand how he had failed to see them before. Old age he though; he would soon be twenty-three.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Richard had been told to fuck off and die with more warmth and good humor.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Many a horse had fallen at the final hurdle.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“But the most important thing for you to understand is this: all things want to open.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Door folded her arms, and stood taller, putting her head back, raising her pointed chin. She looked less like a ragged street-pixie; more like someone used to getting her own way.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“No," said the girl with the opal eyes, distantly. "I opened a door. As far and hard away as I could, I opened a door.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“—Perdone —dijo—. Sé que es una pregunta muy personal, pero ¿está usted clínicamente loco? —Es posible, pero poco probable. ¿Por? —Porque uno de los dos tiene que estarlo.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Do you like cat?” she said. “Yes,” said Richard. “I quite like cats.” Anaesthesia looked relieved. “Thigh?” she asked. “Or breast?”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Ричард давно заметил, что неприятности трусливы – они никогда не ходят поодиночке, а собираются в стаи и атакуют все разом.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“– Мне нравится думать, – печально продолжал он, – что когда пьешь это вино, ты пьешь солнечный свет тех дней, которые уже не вернутся.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“- Города, мистер Вандемар, очень похожи на людей, – торжественно объявил мистер Круп. – Мало кто знает, что таится глубоко внутри.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“– Чего тебе? – подозрительно спросила она.
– Ничего. Мне ничего не надо. Вообще ничего, – сказал Ричард и вдруг понял, что так оно и есть. Он действительно ничего не хочет – и это страшно.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Melanie se quedó mirando a Richard fijamente, como suelen hacer los niños, sin pudor y con total desinhibición”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Cuando te reinventas de arriba abajo, necesitas algún modelo, ya sea para imitarlo o para evitarlo; algo que represente lo que quieres ser, o lo que de ninguna manera quieres ser.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“I don't need this," said Richard to no one it particular, "I really don't need this.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Fare you well.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“What Richard had taken for a pile of rags unfolded, expanded, stood up in one fluid motion, and a hand caught the crumpled paper in midair. “Mine, I believe,” said the Marquis de Carabas.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“The young woman was crying, in the way that grown-ups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Have you ever got everything you ever wanted? And then realized it wasn’t what you wanted at all?”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“I thought I wanted a nice normal life. I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Garbage! Trash! Offal! Debris! Come and get it! Nothing whole or undamaged! Crap, tripe, and useless piles of shit. You know you want it.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“The Marquis stared at Richard, openly amused. “What a refreshing mind you have, young man,” he said. “There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“The jester smiled as bleak a smile as ever was seen. “My sides are splitting, my ribs are cracking, and my mirth is positively uncontainable, Your Grace,” he said.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“As I live, breathe and defecate! It is!”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“She was drinking your life,” said the Marquis de Carabas, in a hoarse whisper. “Taking your warmth. Turning you into a cold thing like her.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Jessica!” shouted Richard, hoping, perhaps by sheer volume, to penetrate the telecommunications network.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final sanctuary of the terminally inept.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“– Столик заказал? Все в порядке? – спросила Джессика, и Ричард, который не умел врать, когда его спрашивали напрямую, выдавил только: – Э-хм…”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere