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141 " Richard found himself imagining the earl sixty, eighty, five hundred years ago: a mighty warrior, a cunning strategist, a great lover of women, a fine friend, a terrifying foe. There was still the wreckage of that man in there somewhere. That was what made him so terrible, and so sad. "
― Neil Gaiman , Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
142 " So life isn't exciting?" continued Gary. "Great. Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight. I'll still have a job on Monday. Yeah?" He turned and looked at Richard.Richard nodded, hesitantly. "Yeah. "
143 " Ah,” said Varney. “Then I’m working for you, aren’t I?” “Yes, you are,” said Mr. Croup. “I’m afraid we don’t have any redeeming features.” “That doesn’t bother me,” said Varney. “Good,” said Mr. Croup. “Welcome aboard. "
144 " I’d watch out for doors if I were you. "
145 " Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. "
146 " Can I help you?’ said the footman. Richard had been told to fuck off and die with more warmth and good humour. "
147 " Remember- their minds are chaos. "
148 " This is his real domain,” muttered Hunter. “Things lost. Things forgotten. "
149 " As I live, breathe, and defecate! "
150 " Richard found himself, on otherwise sensible weekends, accompanying her to places like the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery, where he learned that walking around museums too long hurts your feet, that the great art treasures of the world all blur into each other after a while, and that it is almost beyond the human capacity for belief to accept how much museum cafeterias will brazenly charge for a slice of cake and a cup of tea. "
151 " Can’t make an omelette without killing a few people. "
152 " His life so far, he decided, had prepared him perfectly for a job in securities, for shopping at the supermarket, for watching football on the telly on the weekends, for turning on a heater if he got cold. It had magnificently failed to prepare him for a life as an un-person on the roofs and in the sewers of London, "
153 " Darkness is happening," said the leather woman, very quietly. "Night is happening. All the nightmares that have come out when the sun goes down, since the cave times, when we huddled together in fear for safety and for warmth, are happening. Now. "
154 " My hound hath no nose. "
155 " Your hero is unable to hold his wine, I see,' observed Serpentine, dispassionately.'He is not my hero,' said Door.'I'm afraid he is. You learn to recognize the type. Something in the eyes, perhaps. "
156 " And Jessica saw in Richard an enormous amount of potential, which, properly harnessed by the right woman, would have made him the perfect matrimonial accessory. "
157 " You don’t ask any questions. You don’t get any answers. You don’t stray from the path. You don’t even think about what’s happening to you right now. Got it? "
158 " The Marquis stepped between Richard and Door. 'You can't go back to your old home or your old job or your old life,' he said to Richard almost gently. 'None of those things exist. Up there, you don't exist.' They had reached a junction: a place where three tunnels came together. Door and Hunter set off along one of them, the one that no water was coming down, and they did not look back. The Marquis lingered. 'You'll just have to make the best of it down here,' he said to Richard, 'in the sewers and the magic and the dark. "
159 " I turn my head, and you may go where you want. I turn it again, you will stay till you rot. I have no face, but I live or die By my crooked teeth—who am I? "
160 " I made friends slowly, when I made them. "