# Quote — Neil Gaiman, Stardust

> This I say: you have stolen knowledge you did not earn, but it shall not profit you. For you shall be unable to see the star, unable to perceive it, unable to touch it, to taste it, to find it, to kill it. Even if another were to cut out its heart and give it to you, you would not know it, never know what you had in your hand. This I say. These are my words, and they are a true-speaking.

- 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/this-i-say

## 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?"
>
> "Anything you desire", said Victoria, amused.

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