# Fragile Things

- Author: [Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md)
- Quotes: 15
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things

## Quotes

> I think...I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things/i-think-i-would.md)

> The average daytime speed of a vehicle through the streets of central London has not changed in four hundred years. It’s still under ten miles an hour.

p. 116 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things/the-average-daytime.md)

> If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama any more. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?

p. 321 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things/if-they-think.md)

> The map was gone, and the mapmaker, but the land lives on.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things/the-map-was.md)

> My grandpa sells condoms to sailors
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> He punctures the tips with a pin
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> My grandma does back-street abortions
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> My God how the money rolls in.

p. 319 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things/my-grandpa-sells.md)

> I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It’s as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things/i-believe-we-owe.md)

> I had to go to the store, I had decided, to bring back some apples — and I went past the store that sold apples and I kept driving, and driving. I was going south, and west, because if I went north or east I would run out of world too soon.

p. 82 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things/i-had-to.md)

> But where does contagion end and art begin?

p. 251 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things/but-where-does.md)

> In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the face and lips and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smiled and kept moving.

p. 82 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things/in-every-way.md)

> And he still thinks, in the little bit of his head that's still him, that he's not a zombie. That he's not dead, that there's a threshold he hasn't stepped over. But he crossed it long time ago.

p. 102 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things/and-he-still.md)

> “So you were in the nick?” said Smith suddenly.
>
> “Sorry?”
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> “Prison. Pokey. Porridge. Other words beginning with a P, indicating poor food, no nightlife, inadequate toilet facilities, and limited opportunities for travel.”
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> “Yeah.”
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> “You’re not very chatty, are you?”
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> “I thought that was a virtue.”

p. 308 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things/so-you-were.md)

> New Orleans is a real place, which is more than I can say about most of the cities I’ve lived in, but it’s not a safe place, not a friendly one.

p. 88 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things/new-orleans-is-a-real.md)

> It was cold, in a way that Shadow was starting to become familiar with: colder inside the building than out. He wondered how they did that, if it was a British building secret.

p. 310 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things/it-was-cold.md)

> She does not know where any tale waits
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> before it's told. (No more do I.)
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> But forty thieves sounds good, so forty
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> thieves it is. She prays she's bought another clutch of days.
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> We save our lives in such unlikely ways.

p. 283 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things/she-does-not.md)

> “It can’t make things any worse.”
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> “If there’s one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse,” said my friend.

p. 5 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things/it-cant-make.md)