Neil Gaiman citáty

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„Někdy se vzbudíš. Někdy tě pád zabije. A někdy, když padáš, vzlétneš.“

„Pohádky jsou více než pravdivé – ne proto, že nám říkají, že existují draci, ale protože nám říkají, že je můžeme porazit.“

„Lidé si myslí, že sny nejsou skutečné, protože nejsou z látky, z částic. Sny jsou skutečné, ale skládají se z názorů, představ, vzpomínek, hříček a ztracených nadějí…“

„Dnes mě čeká smrt: je jako uzdravení, jako procházka v zahradě po nemoci.
Dnes mě čeká smrt: je jako vůně myrhy, jako posezení pod plachtou dobrého větru.
Dnes mě čeká smrt: je jako běh potůčku, jako návrat otroka z galejí.
Dnes mě čeká smrt: je jako domov, jejž člověk touží spatřit po rocích v zajetí.“

„Příběhy jsou svým způsobem také zrcadla. Odvádějí naši pozornost od věcí v temnotě.“

„Neodvážiš-li se ničeho, pak na konci dne nic bude vše, co jsi získal.“

„Zrcadla jsou úžasná věc. Zdá se, že nám říkají pravdu, že odrážejí život. Ale nastavte správně zrcadlo a ono vám bude lhát tak přesvědčivě, že uvěříte, že něco zmizelo.“

„"Tohle," ukázal jsem na vesmír. "K čemu to je?"
"K čemu? Ale vždyť to je vesmír."“

„Osud je často překvapením pro toho, komu je určen.“

“He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.”

“Because," she said, "when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”

“"You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.”

“Have a nice doomsday.”

“We all – adults and children, writers and readers – have an obligation to daydream. We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different.”

“I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid unshakably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.”

“We picked some pea pods, opened them and ate the peas inside. Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good when they were freshly-picked and raw, and put them in tin cans, and make them revolting.”

“Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths.”

“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”

“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.”

“I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.”

“I knew enough about adults to know that if I did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely seemed to believe me when I told the truth anyway. Why would they believe me about something so unlikely?”

“And our latest project was Death. It’s one of the hard ones—one of the big ones, too, I suspect. Possibly it may even become the attribute that’s going to define the Creation for the Created: If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning—a boundary beyond which the living cannot cross...”

“Even the better protected files corrupt,
and the best protected corrupt absolutely.”

“It was also, they added, Very Now, which was important in a town in which an hour ago was Ancient History.”

“It can’t make things any worse.”

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”