Neverwhere Quotes

“You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Richard made a break for it. 'Sorry,' he said to the stunned guard, as he yanked his arm out of the man's grip, and fled. 'Wrong London.' ”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“The world seems to work in predictable ways, and you think you see the pattern. But that's fatal. Because it's only a pattern until you meet the first event that doesn't fit. And by then it's too late. By then, all the tricks you've learned to deal with the world -- well, they just don't work anymore.”
― Mike Carey, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere

“All fire burns, little baby. You’ll learn.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“And her eyes...Richard realised that he could not tell what colour her eyes were. They were not blue, or green, or brown, or grey; they reminded him of fire opals: there were burning greens and blues, and even reds and yellows that vanished and glinted as she moved.”
― Neil Gaiman

“but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Why . . . why did some people think you were dead?”
The marquis looked at Richard with eyes that had seen too much and gone too far. “Because they killed me,” he said.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Then turn around thrice, widdershins"?'
'Widdershins is anticlockwise, Richard.'
He turned, three times, feeling stupid. 'Look, why do I have to do all this, just to see your friend. I mean, all this nonsense...'
'It's not nonsense. Really. Just - humour me on this, OK?' And she had smiled at him.
He stopped turning. Then he walked down the alley to the end. Nothing. No one. Just a metal dustbin, and beside it something that might have been a pile of rags. 'Hello?' called Richard. 'Is anyone here? I'm Door's friend. Hello?'
No. There was no one there. Richard was rather relieved. Now he could go home and explain to the girl that nothing had happened.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“They always scream when the eyeballs fall out.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Neil Gaiman dice: "Aunque la serie no estaba mal, no podía dejar de pensar que aquello era lo que yo tenía en la cabeza. Una novela me parecía el vehículo idóneo para trasladar a la mente de otras personas lo que yo había imaginado. Los libros son perfectos para eso.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Jessica pak viděla v Richardovi obrovské možnosti, jež z něho, pokud ho osedlá správná žena, udělají dokonalý společenský doplněk.

Jen kdyby se trochu víc snažil, stěžovala si pro sebe, a dávala mu knihy s tituly jako Oblečením k úspěchu a Sto a jeden návyk úspěšného muže a knihy o tom, jak vést podnik jako válečné tažení, a Richard vždycky poděkoval a vždycky si sliboval, že si je přečte. (...)

"Proč s ní chodíš?" ptal se ho Garry v účtárně o osmnáct měsíců později. "Jde z ní strach.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Door folded her arms, and stood taller, putting her head back, raising her pointed chin. She looked less like a ragged street-pixie; more like someone used to getting her own way.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“No," said the girl with the opal eyes, distantly. "I opened a door. As far and hard away as I could, I opened a door.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“The padlock wants to be open. All you have to do is let it do what it wants.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“El Marqués siempre había sabido qué clase de persona no deseaba ser, desde pequeño. Bajo ningún concepto habría querido ser Peregrino. No quería parecerse a nadie en absoluto. Él quería ser elegante, escurridizo, brillante y, por encima de todo, lo que quería era ser único.

Exactamente igual que Peregrino.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and epty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept”
― Neil Gaiman