Нил Гейман цитаты из книг - страница 16

И тогда... Дунстан окончательно и бесповоротно потерял голову... Дунстан изгибался дугой... наполненный только ей... и знай он ее имя – кричал бы его вслух. В конце концов... она не отпустила его, обхватив ногами, и прижалась к нему так крепко, что юноша чувствовал, будто они двое занимают одно место во вселенной. Как если бы на один великолепный, всепоглощающий миг они стали единым существом...

There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before.

But then it occurred to him that any progress he had made on his quest so far he had made by accepting the help that had been offered to him.

And Tristran Thorn in crimson and canary was not the same man that Tristran Thorn in his overcoat and Sunday suit had been. There was a swagger to his steps, a jauntiness to his movements, that had not been there before. His chin went up instead of down, and there was a glint in his eye that he had not possessed when he had worn a bowler hat.

While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.

they could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.

And there was a voice, a high clear, female voice which said, “Ow,” and then, very quietly, it said “Fuck,” and then it said “Ow,” once more.

On the following day the market finished, although Dunstan did not return to it, and the foreigners left the village and life in Wall returned to normal, which was perhaps slightly less normal than life in most villages (particularly when the wind was in the wrong direction) but was, all things considered, normal enough.

Самое главное в песнях – то, что они совсем как истории: ни черта не стоят, если их никто не слушает.

– Нет никакого почета в драке с противником, который даже не соображает, что ты здесь. И решительно никакого почета нет в драке с человеком, которому снится огород, рыбалка или давно покойная возлюбленная.