Neverwhere Quotes

“Would you think,” Richard asked, “that I was being picky if I pointed out that trying to find something with an angel on it in here is going to be like trying to find a needle in an oh my God it’s Jessica.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Mr. Croup began to laugh. It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“that was okay. Nice food. And no one was trying to kill us.” “I’m sure that will remedy itself as the day goes on,” said Hunter, accurately.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“turn my head, and you may go where you want.     I turn it again, you will stay till you rot.     I have no face, but I live or die     by my crooked teeth—who am I?”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“I have always felt,” he said, “that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Remember- their minds are chaos.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Znacznie łatwiej jest nie wierzyć w coś, kiedy to coś nie patrzy na ciebie i nie wypowiada twojego imienia.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Someone stumbled into him, cursed and walked away. Richard was lying prone on the platform, in the rush-hour glare. The side of his face was sticky and cold. He pulled his head up off the ground. He had been lying in a pool of his own vomit. At least, he hoped it was his own.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“You've been a really good friend to me, Richard. And I've sort of got to quite like having you around. Please don't go.' He squeezed her hand in his gently. 'Well,' he said, 'I've sort of got to quite like having you around, too. But I don't belong in this world. In my London...well, the most dangerous thing you ever have to watch out for is a taxi in a bit of a hurry. I like you too. I like you an awful lot. But I have to go home.' She looked up at him with her odd-coloured eyes, green and blue and flame. 'Then we won't ever see each other again,' she said. 'I suppose we won't' 'Thanks for everything you did,' she said, seriously. Then she threw her arms around him, and she squeezed him tightly enough that the bruises on his ribs hurt, and he hugged her back, just as tightly, making all his bruises complain violently, and he simply didn't care.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Richard had no idea who he was, any more; no idea what was or what was not true; nor whether he was brave or cowardly, mad or sane, but he knew the next thing he had to do. He stepped on to the train,and all the lights went out.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“A click: the sound of a switchblade opening, empty, lonely and dark.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“All fire burns, little baby. You’ll learn.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“And the girl pulled whatever she could find deep inside her soul, from all the pain, and the hurt, and the fear.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Can I help you?’ said the footman. Richard had been told to fuck off and die with more warmth and good humour.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“His life so far, he decided, had prepared him perfectly for a job in securities, for shopping at the supermarket, for watching football on the telly on the weekends, for turning on a heater if he got cold. It had magnificently failed to prepare him for a life as an un-person on the roofs and in the sewers of London,”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Can’t make an omelette without killing a few people.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

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

“events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“And Jessica saw in Richard an enormous amount of potential, which, properly harnessed by the right woman, would have made him the perfect matrimonial accessory.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“He’s traveled so far beyond right and wrong he couldn’t see them with a telescope on a nice clear night,”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring—gliding through his mind.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Ah,” said Varney. “Then I’m working for you, aren’t I?” “Yes, you are,” said Mr. Croup. “I’m afraid we don’t have any redeeming features.” “That doesn’t bother me,” said Varney. “Good,” said Mr. Croup. “Welcome aboard.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“After four days of flight, she had found a hiding place...”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“I’d watch out for doors if I were you.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Your hero is unable to hold his wine, I see,' observed Serpentine, dispassionately.
'He is not my hero,' said Door.
'I'm afraid he is. You learn to recognize the type. Something in the eyes, perhaps.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

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

“This is his real domain,” muttered Hunter. “Things lost. Things forgotten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“My hound hath no nose.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere