Stardust (Gaiman novel) Quotes
Fantasy books, American novels
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“Stand, or we die now.”
“It doesn't matter if I believe it or not, that's just the way things are.”
“Have been unavoidably detained by the world.
Expect us when you see us.”
“Tori lent me a house, and I wrote the first chapter in it, and all she asked in exchange was that I make her a tree.”
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“I ran from him. But he found me and bound me with an obligation, which binds my kind more securely than any chain ever could.”
“There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of unhatched chicks.”
“"Everything I ever thought about myself—who I was, what I am—was a lie. Or sort of. You have no idea how astonishingly liberating that feels".”
“The guard is relaxed once every nine years, on May Day, when a fair comes to the meadow.”
“"And if I brought you the fallen star?" asked Tristran lightly. "What would you give me? A kiss? Your hand in marriage?"
"Anything you desire", said Victoria, amused.”
“She had a unicorn to protect her. Now I have the unicorn's head, and I will bring it back with me, for it's long enough since we had fresh ground unicorn's horn in our arts”
“I will tell you three true things. Two of them I will tell you now, and the last is for when you need it most. You will have to judge for yourself when that will be.”
“Very rarely someone comes to Wall knowing what they are looking for, and these people they will sometimes allow through. There is a look in the eyes, and once seen it cannot be mistaken.”
“Billy lowered his head and ran, headlong, at the unicorn, as if he were about to butt it with his forehead. The unicorn lowered its head also, and Billy the Innkeeper met his unfortunate end.”
“"If you ever get to be my age", said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run".”
“"The little folk dare anything", said his friend. "And they talks a lot of nonsense. But they talks an awful lot of sense, as well. You listen to 'em at your peril, and you ignore 'em at your peril, too".”
“It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and niggling, and that the large things one overlooks can often cause problems.”
“I owe an enormous debt to Hope Mirrlees, Lord Dunsany, James Branch Cabell and C. S. Lewis, wherever they may currently be, for showing me that fairy stories were for adults too.”