I Loved To Sleep With The Window Open. Rainy Nights Were The Best Of All: I Would Open The Window And

“I loved to sleep with the window open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open the window and put my head on the pillow and close my eyes and feel the wind on my face and listen to the trees sway and creak.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I just don’t know what I’m supposed to be”. (Lost in Translation, 2003) 

“I had actually read that book years before and when the script came around I found the book in my library and I realised I had underlined everything Lisa. I knew her. I felt that she was honest, I felt that she was honest in a world where a lot of things were not. That she could push everybody else’s buttons and nobody could push hers. And I did see that as a very sad thing. She wanted so desperately for somebody to call her out, to talk to her honestly, to be direct with her, to have a real connection in life.”

— Angelina Jolie on Lisa Rowe from Girl, Interrupted (1999)

“Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means that you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.”

— Coraline, Neil Gaiman

when mary shelley said she always felt on the inside like a little poor rain-drenched plant, we all felt that

“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”

— Neil Gaiman, Stardust