May 2010
26 posts
Why I LOVE Neil Gaiman (From Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes)
- LUCIFER: Look around you, Morpheus. The million Lords of Hell stand arrayed about you. Tell us why we should let you leave? Helmet or no, you have no power here... what power have dreams in hell?
- MORPHEUS: You say I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly... But -- you say that Dreams have no power here? Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar.. Ask yourselves, all of you... What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?
“Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody?”
—From Sandman by Neil Gaiman (sassasaurus)
“His madness keeps him sane.”
—Delirium (Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman: Fables & Reflections”) (ricardices)
“The process was slow at first, my lord. Things in the dreamworld began to transmute. I was aware of it in my library… Slowly, the words began to fade. Some time after you vanished, my books became bound volumes of blank paper. The next day the whole library was gone. I never found it again…”
—Lucien @ SANDMAN #2: Imperfect Hosts
“I think Hell’s something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go. They’re doing the same things they always did. They’re doing it to themselves. That’s Hell.”
—The Sandman: Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman (neilgaiman)
“Only the phoenix arises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.”
—in neil gaiman’s sandman - the wake (xxxxxray)
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- Somebody says ‘Endless’ and you turn around asking “Where??!”
- You want everything you own to be black. Even your eyeballs.
- You keep looking for ‘the’ bar and ask around for a Hob Gadling. If that doesn’t work, you order some ale and argue loudly (with no one in…
“It was good to be three. I haven’t forgotten… Twos don’t work. Twos hurt and crumble. Twos fall into ones, and then into dust and nothings.”
—in neil gaiman’s sandman - the kindly ones (xxxxxray)
