# Quote — Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things

> 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.

- Author: [Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md)
- Book: [Fragile Things](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things.md)
- Page: 82
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Gaiman#Fragile_Things_(2006)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things/in-every-way

## More from this book

> 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)