Stardust is a popular fantasy novel written and published in 1999.
It is written by a British writer Neil Gaiman.
The story follows the adventures of a young man whose name is Tristran Thorn.
Tristran promises to bring back a fallen star for his beloved Victoria.
Stardust is filled with enchantment, whimsy, and surprising experiences.
This book has been illustrated by Charles Vess and has a different tone than Gaiman’s other published works.
Here are some of the top quotes from Stardust novel.
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Best Stardust Quotes by Neil Gaiman
“You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“I am the most miserable person who ever lived,” he said… “You are young, and in love,” said Primus. “Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
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Famous Stardust Quotes by Neil Gaiman
“There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“What do stars do? They shine.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“Tristan and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?” ~ Neil Gaiman, Stardust
“The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow into the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“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.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
Top Stardust Quotes by Neil Gaiman
“There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“The only ones who ever come here from your lands are the minstrels, and the lovers, and the mad. And you don’t look like much of a minstrel, and you’re— pardon me for saying so lad, but it’s true— ordinary as cheese crumbs. So it’s love if you ask me.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“Without our stories we are incomplete.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air–a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and niggling, and that the large things one overlooks often cause problems.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“Don’t confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
Great Stardust Quotes by Neil Gaiman
“I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,’ she opined, ‘like having someone else break in one’s own pony.” ~ Neil Gaiman, Stardust.
“Silver chains come in all shapes and sizes.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“When I grew up, I wanted to be a werewolf. Or a writer. But writer was definitely the number two alternative. Werewolfing was an easy number one.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man apologizes to his guests, and leaves them, muttering something about a prior engagement.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“I do not know what you were like as a wood-nymph, madam, but you are a magnificent tree.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner, it had stopped at the edge of the forest, looked at him with disdain, and said, ‘Well, I hope you’re proud of yourself, that’s all,’ and had scampered off into the long grass” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“Behind them were the lights of the market, the lanterns and candles and witch-lights and fairy glitter, like a dream of the night sky brought down to earth.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“There was a moment of hesitation, and then her mouth opened against his, and her tongue slid into his mouth, and he was, under the strange stars, utterly, irrevocably, lost.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
Quotes from Stardust
“Things inanimate have always been more difficult to change than things animate. Their souls are older and stupider and harder to persuade.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“Better I should call to people who aren’t there than that people who are there should miss us because I didn’t say anything.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“But she knew also that it would not be wise to begin her life with Tristan by arguing with his mother.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as they grow.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“Teach me to hear mermaids singing.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“I gain my freedom on the day the moon loses her daughter, if that occurs in a week when two Mondays come together. I await it with patience.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“Sometimes the ship would sail above dark storm clouds, as big as mountains, and the crew would fish for lightning bolts with a small copper chest.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“He passed a stall in which five huge men were dancing to the music of a lugubrious hurdy-gurdy being played by a mournful-looking black bear;” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“Sometimes I wonder if she transforms people into animals, or whether she finds the beast inside us, and frees it.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“If you will not kiss me, will you marry me?” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“It is something to which I have given much thought, but about which I have come to no conclusions.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“You must come to the Vicarage, then, next week,” said the vicar.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of unhatched chicks,” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours and then be willing to let it go.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
“I created cat myths, which cats tell each other in the night.” ~ Neil Gaiman (Stardust).
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