Romance Quote by Neil Gaiman — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?”

“All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories—if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”

“But then it occured to him that any progress he had made on his quest so far he had made by accepting the help that had been offered to him.”

“Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.”

“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”

“You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.”

“he claimed her without claiming her, he wanted her without wanting her, and she needed more, she needed him, and he didn't give her that.”

“We had old architects and were working with what we had on hand. You’ve hired this new, young architect now, and, Pericles, I’m going to build you a statue of Athena—all gold and ivory, think of that, Pericles—and taller than our city walls.” Pericles raised his eyes toward the birds.”

“I know what you want, darlin'. You go on and ask me nicely and you might just get it.”

“Grace stopped in the door, dimly silhouetted by the dull gray morning light, and looked back at me, at my eyes, my mouth, my hands, in a way that made something inside me knot and unknot unbearably.”

“The sound of a thousand whispering ghosts surrounded her.”

“It is when things are at worst you will get the best.”