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Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7) QUOTES

Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7) QUOTES

1 " You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less. "

― Neil Gaiman , Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)

2 " She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable. "

― Neil Gaiman , Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)

3 " I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall. "

― Neil Gaiman , Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)

4 " Of course, the truth is that no one likes change. People in hell not only refuse to leave it, they invite you in, too. Even people who have blasted the other lives that touched their own blasted lives proudly declare in old age that they would not change a thing -- all that cursing and screaming was their life, by God, and it is not possible to imagine any other. Change introduces unpredictability, uncertainty, a universe of disorder. Right before an amoeba splits in two, it says to itself, uh uh, no way, I ain't gonna do that, nope. "

― Neil Gaiman , Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)

5 " The stuff you bring back from dreams is free. "

― Neil Gaiman , Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)

6 " There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now. "

― Neil Gaiman , Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)

7 " Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear. "

― Neil Gaiman , Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)

8 " To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost unknown in this day. "

― Neil Gaiman , Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)

9 " I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend... "

― Neil Gaiman , Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)

10 " I like the stars. It’s the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they’re always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend… I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and Gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don’t last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend. "

― Neil Gaiman , Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)

11 " You can indeed become lost, in dreams. And you may not always find yourself when you wake up. "

― Neil Gaiman , Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)

12 " It always rains on the unloved-wet dreams-a fishing expedition-she kisses wyverns (the disneyland analogy)-dinner etiquette and chocolate lovers-desire swears by the first circle-"things are changing"-what can possibly go wrong? "

― Neil Gaiman , Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)

13 " Have you ever spent days and days and days making up flavors of ice cream that no one's ever eaten before? Like chicken and telepone ice cream? Green mouse ice cream was the worst. I didn't like that at all. "

― Neil Gaiman , Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)

14 " Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden. "

― Neil Gaiman , Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)

15 " Change. Change. Change. Change … change. Change. Chaaange. When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do. "

― Neil Gaiman , Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)

16 " One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one]. "

― Neil Gaiman , Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)

17 " I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. "

― Neil Gaiman , Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)

18 " When you dream, sometimes you remember. When you wake, you always forget. "

― Neil Gaiman , Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)

19 " I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn't a proper place. I like in betweens. "

― Neil Gaiman , Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)

20 " You got a lifetime. No more. No less. "

― Neil Gaiman , Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)