Death by Neil Gaiman

A Story by Amelie

Some random quotes written by Neil Gaiman, things that inspire me.

"-I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there for old and young, innocent and guilty, those who die together and those who die alone. I'm in cars and boats and planes; in hospitals and forests and abbatoirs. For some folks death is a release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them." - Death

“Death’s a funny thing. I used to think it was a big, sudden thing, like a huge owl that would swoop down out of the night and carry you off. I don’t anymore. I think it’s a slow thing. Like a thief who comes to your house day after day, taking a little thing here and a little thing there, and one day you walk round your house and there’s nothing there to keep you, nothing to make you want to stay. And then you lie down and shut up forever. Lots of little deaths until the last big one.”

-Neil Gaiman

"-You are mortal: it is the mortal way. You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell.
You grieve. Then you continue with your life.
And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on.
She is dead.
You are alive.
So live." -Dream

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I wish to sleep with Death.

He hovers over me like a hawk.

He taunts me with his whispers.

He caresses me with hands of ice.

He is constantly there - patiently waiting

He stares with eyes like oceans -

still and turbulent at the same time

I wish to sleep with Death.

His breath on my ear is intoxicating.

His voice, seductively sweet.

His silent moans beckon me.