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The Wake (The Sandman, #10) QUOTES

The Wake (The Sandman, #10) QUOTES

1 " Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Wake (The Sandman, #10)

2 " The bonds of family bind us up, support us, help us. And they are also a bond from which it is difficult, perhaps impossible to extricate oneself. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Wake (The Sandman, #10)

3 " Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Wake (The Sandman, #10)

4 " That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Wake (The Sandman, #10)

5 " But we do not need to recount every sermon and eulogy. After all, you were there. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Wake (The Sandman, #10)

6 " We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never had, the time we did not spend together. I regret that I never told him that he made me happy, when I was in his company. The world was the better for his being in it. These things alone do I now regret: things left unsaid. And he is gone, and I am old. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Wake (The Sandman, #10)

7 " It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Wake (The Sandman, #10)

8 " Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Wake (The Sandman, #10)

9 " Death’s a funny thing. I used to think it was a big, sudden thing, like a huge owl that would swoop down out of the night and carry you off. I don’t anymore. I think it’s a slow thing. Like a thief who comes to your house day after day, taking a little thing here and a little thing there, and one day you walk round your house and there’s nothing there to keep you, nothing to make you want to stay. And then you lie down and shut up forever. Lots of little deaths until the last big one. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Wake (The Sandman, #10)

10 " Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something. The Brits, maybe, or the Swedes. You know what I mean?"

"No, Matthew. What do they say?"

"The king is dead, that's what they say. The king is dead. Long live the king. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Wake (The Sandman, #10)

11 " But you will remember it, in the soft, lost, slumbering moments between waking and true sleep: remember the whispering voices of the Gods of Earth and Heaven, the piping laughter of innocent chaos, the frightened rusting of cold order...the voices of the living. The voices of the dead. They will haunt your sleep until you die. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Wake (The Sandman, #10)

12 " I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Wake (The Sandman, #10)

13 " Whatever happened to me in my life, happened to me as a writer of plays. I'd fall in love, or fall in lust. And at the height of my passion, I would think, 'So this is how it feels,' and I would tie it up in pretty words. I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled. For I knew I could take my broken heart and place it on the stage of The Globe, and make the pit cry tears of their own. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Wake (The Sandman, #10)

14 " Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?"
"Then what died? who are you mourning?"
"A point of view. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Wake (The Sandman, #10)

15 " And the state of his bathroom -- I'm not one to gossip, but there are things crusted on his sink that have not simply developed intelligent life, but have in all probability by now envolved their own political systems. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Wake (The Sandman, #10)

16 " He loved me. I do not doubt that. In hindsight, I do not believe that I loved him. I simply felt his love for me, burning and all-consuming, and reflected it back, as the cold light of the moon reflects the light of the sun. I did not know that at the time. I thought I loved him. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Wake (The Sandman, #10)

17 " You will forget. Death or life will take him from your minds. I know, whispered Despair, in her distant, empty voice. But I shall remember him. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Wake (The Sandman, #10)

18 " Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while. "

― Neil Gaiman , The Wake (The Sandman, #10)

19 " summer is a time for popsicles "

― Neil Gaiman , The Wake (The Sandman, #10)