Quotes from book
Smoke and Mirrors

Name: Smoke and Mirrors
Author: Neil Gaiman

Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions is a collection of short stories and poems by English writer Neil Gaiman. It was first published in the United States in 1998, and in the United Kingdom in 1999. The UK edition included five stories not in the US edition, four of which were included in the US edition of the other collection Fragile Things.

“And our latest project was Death. It’s one of the hard ones—one of the big ones, too, I suspect. Possibly it may even become the attribute that’s going to define the Creation for the Created: If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning—a boundary beyond which the living cannot cross...”

Neil Gaiman book Smoke and Mirrors

Murder Mysteries (p. 312)
Smoke and Mirrors (1998)

“Even the better protected files corrupt,
and the best protected corrupt absolutely.”

Neil Gaiman book Smoke and Mirrors

Cold Colors (p. 239)
Smoke and Mirrors (1998)

“It was also, they added, Very Now, which was important in a town in which an hour ago was Ancient History.”

Neil Gaiman book Smoke and Mirrors

The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories (p. 107)
Smoke and Mirrors (1998)