A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff Quotes

“Make mistakes. Make great mistakes , make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong, too scared to do anything.”
― Neil Gaiman, A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff

“Before you read this ride the night train.
Do not sleep. Encounter people you remember,
now long dead, and read to them.

Before you read this.
battle zombies,
watch your step, trust no one,
kiss without thinking.”
― Neil Gaiman, A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff

“In my country we smile in bursts, like the sun coming out and illuminating the fields and then retreating again behind a cloud too soon. Smiles are valuable here. But you smiled all the time, as if everything you saw delighted you. You smiled the first time you saw me, even wider than before. You smiled and I was lost, like a small child in a great forest, never to find its way home again.”
― Neil Gaiman, A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff

“We have been telling each other tales of otherness, of life beyond the grave, for a long time; stories that prickle the flesh and make the shadows deeper and, most important, remind us that we live, and that there is something special, something unique and remarkable about the state of being alive.”
― Neil Gaiman, A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff

“We are gathered here at the end of what Bradbury called the October Country: a state of mind as much as it is a time. All the harvests are in, the frost is on the ground, there’s mist in the crisp night air and it’s time to tell ghost stories.”
― Neil Gaiman, A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff

“Within my hearing you have spoken of the beauty of this small city. How standing inside the stained-glass confection of the old church was like being imprisoned inside a kaleidoscope of jewels. It was like being in the heart of the sun.”
― Neil Gaiman, A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff

“Then, and only then, do they see me. But they do not always know what they have seen.
I see you as a code to be broken, or a puzzle to be cracked. Or a jig-saw puzzle, to be put together. I walk through your life, and I stand motionless at the edge of my own life.”
― Neil Gaiman, A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff

“I dreamed today of bone-white horses, stamping and nuzzling in the bright sunshine, and of orange poppies which swayed and danced in the spring wind.

(Do not look back.)”
― Neil Gaiman, A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff

“Before you read this write it down. Take a candle
and your childhood into an attic. Make a
paper house of books and dreams and
burn it to ash.

Before you read this.

Before you read this let your heart dissolve,
the words made mould
and mist and memories.
(Leave the memories
inside the paper house you burned.)”
― Neil Gaiman, A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff