Neverwhere Quotes

“You’re in trouble already. Everything you do, everything you say, everything you hear, just makes it worse. You had better pray you haven’t stepped too far in.”

“There are little bubbles of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles in amber. There’s a lot of time in London, and it has to go somewhere—it doesn’t all get used up at once”

“Richard had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”

“Jessica was in the process of organizing a traveling exhibition of Mr. Stockton’s angel collection, and had come to the conclusion that great men always collected something.”

“Sometimes there is nothing you can do.”

“Richard had been awed by Jessica, who was beautiful, and often quite funny, and was certainly going somewhere.”

“The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain that he was not a brave man.”

″‘You got a long way to go...,’ she said, puzzled. ‘London,’ Richard told her. ‘Not just London...’ The old woman paused. ‘Not any London I know. It started to rain, then, softly. ‘I’m sorry,’ she said. ‘It starts with doors.‘”

“You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.”

“You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.”