# Quote — Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

> Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful of monkeys. It had done nothing he had considered particularly entertaining, apart from emit interesting noises, and eventually, once the noises had stopped and the monkeys were no longer doing anything at all—except possibly on an organic level—had needed to be disposed of in the dead of night.

- Author: [Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md)
- Book: [Anansi Boys](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/anansi-boys.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/anansi-boys/several-years-earlier

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> Nothing good lasts forever, after all. Sooner or later, as Grahame Coats himself would have delighted in assuring you, even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.

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> “You, Charles. The police suspect you.”
>
> “Yes,” said Fat Charlie. “Of course they do. It’s been that sort of a day.”

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> Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily against the pin. Now the meter broke. From this moment on, he suspected, nothing would surprise him. He could no longer be outweirded. He was done.
>
> He was wrong, of course.

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