Neverwhere (London Below, #1)

by Neil Gaiman

“What’s it like then?” asked Old Bailey. “Being dead?” The Marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a glitter of his old self, he replied, “Live long enough, Old Bailey, and you can find out for yourself.”

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile, into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.