"The Graveyard Book" Quotes
A boy raised by ghosts in a graveyard must confront the dangers of the living world in Neil Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book."
fantasy | 307 pages | Published in 2008
Quotes
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.
It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
Things bloom in graveyards that bloom nowhere else. The dead carry their secrets with them.
You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
Sleep my little Baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken...
In the end, Bod and Silas walked together through the graveyard, and the boy clasped his friend’s hand tightly, in case Silas should vanish and he should suddenly find himself alone.
Every young man or woman should know before he or she begins to take life seriously that the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.
