Thomas > Thomas's Quotes

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“There are things that wait for us, patiently, in the dark corridors of our lives. We think we have moved on, put them out of mind, left them to desiccate and shrivel and blow away; but we are wrong. They have been waiting there in the darkness, working out, practicing their most vicious blows, their sharp hard thoughtless punches into the gut, killing time until we came back that way.”
― Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

“I am not scared of bad people, of wicked evildoers, of monsters and creatures of the night. The people who scare me are the ones who are certain of their own rightness. The ones who know how to behave, and what their neighbors need to do to be on the side of the good.”
― Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

“We are all wearing masks. That is what makes us interesting.”
― Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

“I wonder, Are fictions safe places? And then I ask myself, Should they be safe places?”
― Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

“You're very good. Are you a professional artist?"

"I dabble," she said.

Shadow had spent enough time talking to the English to know that this meant either that she dabbled, or that her work was regularly hung in the National gallery or the Tate Modern.”
― Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

“There are many for whom the lure of gold outweighs the beauty of a rainbow.”
― Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.”
― William Faulkner

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“I remember one morning getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling. And I... I remember thinking to myself: So this is the beginning of happiness, this is where it starts. And of course there will always be more...never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment, right then.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours