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“So what I want to know is, when I'm asleep, do I really remember how to fly? And forget how when I wake up? Or am I just dreaming I can fly?”
“When you dream, sometimes you remember. When you wake, you always forget.”
“But that's not fair...”
“No.”
— Chloe and Dream, in SANDMAN #43: “Brief Lives:3”
If you bring me back to life, my death will have no meaning. I had a fine existence. I was a good place. I spent a little time in the waking world. I even fell in love, once, a little. I lived a good life and it ended. Would you take that away from me?
— Fiddler's Green, in SANDMAN #70, part one of “The Wake”
Such a train it becomes, oh! a gleaming black and silver Deco dream of a train that clacks along the silver tracks with the unchanging rhythm of a nursery rhyme, and perhaps, if you listened hard enough, you could imagine that you could tease words from the pulsing clatter...
— Dream's conveyance, in SANDMAN #67: “The Kindly Ones:11”
Heritage Auctions: "Bestselling novelist and Sandman creator Neil Gaiman spent most of Thursday at Heritage Auctions’ world headquarters in Dallas, offering more than 125 prized pieces from his collection — everything from original comic artwork to signed books, a Coraline puppet used in the film to limited-edition sculptures, handmade Christmas stories given as gifts, to the awards he received.”
(Via File 770's news Roundup: https://file770.com/pixel-scroll-3-19-24-oceans-elevenses/ )
The process was slow at first, my lord. Things in the dreamworld began to transmute. I was aware of it in my library... Slowly, the words began to fade. Some time after you vanished, my books became bound volumes of blank paper. The next day the whole library was gone. I never found it again...
— Lucien, in SANDMAN #2: “Imperfect Hosts”
During your stay on this Earth the faerie have afforded me much diversion, and entertainment. Now you have left for your own haunts. And I would repay you all for the amusement. And more. They shall not forget you. That was important to me: that King Auberon and Queen Titania will be remembered by mortals, until this age is gone.
— Dream, in SANDMAN #19: “A Midsummer Night's Dream”
“Wanda?”
“Yeah?”
“You've got a thingie.”
“Hazel, didn't anyone ever tell you that it's not polite to draw attention to a lady's shortcomings?”
— Hazel and Wanda, in SANDMAN #34: “Bad Moon Rising”
Uh, Father, Magus. I've found something that may cast some light on our guest. In the _Paginarum Fulvarum_...
— Alex Burgess, in SANDMAN #1: “Sleep of the Just”
