Neil Gaiman

"Suffering is sometimes cleansing,” said the man. His clothes were casual, but expensive. “It can purify.'“It can also fuck you up,” said Shadow."

"You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly.'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline."

"Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many."

"The burning point of paper was the moment where I knew that I would have to remember this. Because people would have to remember books, if other people burn them or forget them. We will commit them to memory. We will be come them. We become authors. We become their books."

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

"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."

"I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies."

"I think that there should have been some nice wumpires,' said my sister, wistfully. 'Nice, handsome, misunderstood wumpires.'There were not,' said my father."