The Graveyard Book

by Neil Gaiman

It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”

Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they’re scared for the fear to become real.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”

“Dish best served cold,” said Nehemiah Trot. “Do not take revenge in the heat of the moment. Instead, wait until the hour is propitious. There

“People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.”

You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”