dutychained:

taken from the comic book series written by neil gaiman

• “the price of wisdom is above rubies.”
  
• “when do the nightmares slip out into the daylight?”
  
• “it was a dark and stormy nightmare.”
  
• “I left a monarch. yet I return alone…hungry.”
  
• “never trust a [insert word here]. he has a hundred motives for anything he does – 99 of them, at least, malevolent.”
  
• “I would have dreamed of you…if I could dream.”
  
• “the real problem with stories: if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”
  
• “little ghost, get out of my way.”
  
• “I’ve learned from my mistakes, but I’ve had more time to commit more mistakes.”
  
• “I suppose there are worse endings.”
  
• “it is a fool’s prerogative to utter truths no one else will speak.”
  
• “I only have two kinds of dreams: the bad and the terrible.”
  
• “the price of getting what you want is getting what you once wanted.”
  
• “it’s part of growing up, I suppose. you always have to leave something behind you.”
  
• “nobody looks up in the sky anymore.”
  
• “everybody has a secret world inside of them.”
  
• “it is sometimes a mistake to climb, it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt.”
  
• “sometimes you wake up. sometimes the fall kills you. and sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
  
• “without dreams, there could be no despair.”
  
• “it is unwise to summon what you cannot dismiss.”
  
• “never trust the storyteller. only trust the story.”
  
• “destiny is blind.”
  
• “remember how hard it was for me to leave, and that it was not your fault.”
  
• “life, like time, is a journey through darkness.”
  
• “I like the stars. It’s the illusion of permanence, I think. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments.”
  
• “when something ends, there’s always something left over. a story, or a vision, or a hope.”
  
• “I don’t recommend revenge. it tends to have repercussions.”
  
• “honesty is a somewhat overrated virtue.”
  
• “I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.”
• “the things we do make echoes.”
  
• “all journeys leave marks on us.”
  
• “have you ever been in love? horrible, isn’t it? it makes you so vulnerable.”
  
• “when there’s no hope, you might as well be dead.”
  
• “they will haunt your sleep until you die.”
  
• “everything changes, and nothing is truly lost.”