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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Carnegie Medal Winner * New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age * VOYA Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror * ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * Book Sense PickThe Amazing

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Neil Gaiman (4)Terry Pratchett (1)Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (1)

“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.”

— Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

Tagged: admiration, Amusement, Symbolism, Love Affair

“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.”

— Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

Tagged: admiration, Attraction, admiring someone, captivated

“You grow up reading about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazing things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nuclear waste hanging about for millions of years.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Growing Up, Disappointment

“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Future, Time

“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Tragedy, War, humanity