Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

by Neil Gaiman

“I think…that I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.”

People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

“If there’s one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse,”

“There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren’t what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.

the faceless were walking; all was right with the world.

Words can wound, and wounds can heal.

hearts can be well-hidden, and you betray them with your tongue.

know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one’s lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

And after that there was nothing but silence in the Garden, save for the occasional sound of the man taking away its name from another animal.

The paths that ghosts follow are written on the land in old words.

She prays she’s bought another clutch of days. We save our lives in such unlikely ways.

Things last a long time, in the shadows.”