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Stardust QUOTES

Stardust QUOTES

1 " They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it was not big enough to contain all the joy that it held. He opened his eyes as he kissed the star. Her sky-blue eyes stared back into his, and in her eyes he could see no parting from her. "

― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

2 " She could hear, some way off, her brothers calling to each other in the woods behind the house. She hoped desperately that their game wouldn't bring them any closer, that they wouldn't scare the birds away.
Somehow she knew that you didn't get many moments like this in your life: moments when you knew, without any doubt, that you were alive, when you felt the air in your lungs and the wet grass beneath your feet and the cotton on your skin; moments when you were completely in the present, when neither the past nor the future mattered.
She tried to slow her breathing, hoping somehow to make this moment last forever. "

― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

3 " He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times. "

― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

4 " There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks. "

― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

5 " He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner, it had stopped at the edge of the forest, looked at him with disdain, and said, 'Well, I hope you're proud of yourself, that's all,' and had scampered off into the long grass "

― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

6 " Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain. "

― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

7 " I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony. "

― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

8 " Yeah, you and me, we can ride on a star
If you stay with me, girl
We can rule the world
Yeah, you and me, we can light up the sky
If you stay by my side
We can rule the world "

― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

9 " Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel. "

― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

10 " There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire. "

― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

11 " He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. He looked back and fancied that he could see the lights of Wall behind him, wavering and glimmering as if in a heat-haze, but still inviting. "

― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

12 " There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before. "

― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

13 " You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen. "

― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

14 " Mr. Charles Dickens was serializing his novel Oliver Twist; Mr. Draper had just taken the first photograph of the moon, freezing her pale face on cold paper; Mr. Morse had recently announced a way of transmitting messages down metal wires. Had you mentioned magic or Faerie to any of them, they would have smiled at you disdainfully, except, perhaps for Mr. Dickens, at the time a young man, and beardless. He would have looked at you wistfully. "

― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

15 " Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human? "

― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

16 " And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know... "

― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

17 " Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets. "

― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

18 " Few of us have seen the stars as folk saw them then - our cities and towns cast too much light into the night - but, from the village of Wall, the stars were laid out like worlds or like ideas, uncountable as the trees in a forest or the leaves on a tree. "

― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

19 " It was sometimes said that the grey-and-black mountain range which ran like a spine north to south down that part of Faerie had once been a giant, who grew so huge and so heavy that, one day, worn out from the sheer effort of moving and living, he had stretched out on the plain and fallen into a sleep so profound that centuries passed between heartbeats. "

― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

20 " The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air--a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves. "

― Neil Gaiman , Stardust