# Quote — Neil Gaiman, Stardust

> Tristran sat at the top of the spire of cloud and wondered why none of the heroes of the penny dreadfuls he used to read so avidly were ever hungry. His stomach rumbled, and his hand hurt him so.
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> Adventures are all very well in their place, he thought, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
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> Still, he was alive, and the wind was in his hair, and the cloud was scudding through the sky like a galleon at full sail. Looking out over the world from above, he could never remember feeling so alive as he did at that moment. There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before.
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> He understood that he was, in some way, above his problems, just as he was above the world.

- Author: [Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md)
- Book: [Stardust](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/stardust.md)
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> 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.

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> 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.

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> "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.

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