“To say that Richard Mayhew was not very good at heights would be perfectly accurate, but it would fail to give the full picture. Richard hated cliff tops, and high buildings: somewhere not far inside him was the fear - the stark, utter, silently screaming terror - that if he got too close to the edge, then something would take over and he would find himself walking to the edge of the cliff top and stepping off into space. It was as if he could not entirely trust himself, and that scared Richard more than the simple fear of falling ever could. So he called it vertigo, and hated it and himself, and kept away from high places.” - Neil Gaiman, Nevermore (Ch. 2)
I adore Neil Gaiman and I adore this paragraph in his book I’m reading right now. I’ve never had anyone sum up how I feel about heights so perfectly. I love the book he wrote called, Stardust, too – the movie of it is one of my top 5 favorite movies of all time also (it doesn’t hurt that my chick crush, Michelle Pfeiffer, is in it either, I suppose). Neil Gaiman is just so good with his words though, it always impresses me to no end so thought I would share.
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