# Quote — Neil Gaiman, Stardust

> The witch-queen pulled her body from the horn, and, one hand gripping her wounded shoulder, the other holding her cleaver, she staggered to her feet.
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> Her eyes scanned the room, alighting on Tristran and the star huddled by the fire. Slowly, agonizingly slowly, she lurched toward them, a cleaver in her hand and a smile upon her face.
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> "The burning golden heart of a star at peace is so much finer than the flickering heart of a little frightened star", she told them, her voice oddly calm and detached, coming, as it was, from that blood-bespattered face. "But even the heart of a star who is afraid and scared is better by far than no heart at all".

- Author: [Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md)
- Book: [Stardust](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/stardust.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/stardust/the-witch-queen-pulled

## More from this book

> I ran from him. But he found me and bound me with an obligation, which binds my kind more securely than any chain ever could.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/stardust/i-ran-from.md)

> Every boy in the village was in love with Victoria Forester. And many a sedate gentleman, quietly married with grey in his beard, would stare at her as she walked down the street, becoming, for a few moments, a boy once more, in the spring of his years with a spring in his step.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/stardust/every-boy-in-the.md)

> "And if I brought you the fallen star?" asked Tristran lightly. "What would you give me? A kiss? Your hand in marriage?"
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> "Anything you desire", said Victoria, amused.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/stardust/and-if-i-brought.md)