Toying with ideas...

I'm debating an idea for a new tattoo. I really want a quote/bookish one (preferably referencing a work by Neil Gaiman -- He is the author that really made me LOVE books). I want it in a place that's easily covered but can also be showed off on occasion without me having to be scantily clothed. I'm debating between this or a prayer bead anklet for my next one (to symbolize the importance of spirituality in my life)....hmmm...

Here's a picture of a Neil Gaiman image from Coraline that speaks to me. I like the keyhole aspect and I like the quote....but Coraline isn't my favorite of his works. I really like his book Neverwhere and his comic series Sandman, and am debating putting a different quote in the same general spot in the keyhole.

The following are some quotes I like from various Neil Gaiman works...not all would fit in the keyhole, but I haven't really finished working it out or where I'd put it:

"Face your life
Its pain, its pleasure
Leave no path untaken"

"Beware of Doors." (this is one that I'm thinking of replacing in the keyhole from Neverwhere)

"He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him."

"He 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.”

“But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize. Their hearts desire, their dream....But the price of getting what you want is getting what you once wanted.”

“We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.”

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten”

“This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.”

“It was a dark and stormy nightmare”

“I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.”

“Charitably...I think...Sometimes perhaps one must change or die. And in the end, there were perhaps limits to how much he could let himself change.”