Neverwhere on The Napoleon of Notting Hill: “I have never been to St John's Wood. I dare not. I should be afraid of the innumerable night of fir trees, afraid to come upon a blood red cup and the beating of the wings of the Eagle. (epigraph, attributed: The Napoleon of Notting Hill, G. K. CHESTERTON)”
Neverwhere on Mansfield Park: “Door was sitting on the edge of her bed, reading a copy of Mansfield Park that Richard was certain that the friars had not previously known that they had.”
Neverwhere on Robinson Crusoe: “Richard found himself remembering a theatrical performance of Robinson Crusoe he had been taken to, as a child: this was what Robinson Crusoe might have looked like, if he had been shipwrecked on a rooftop instead of a desert island.”
Neverwhere on The Masque of the Red Death: “"I keep telling you," he said, with the satisfied relish of any true prophet, "it's 'The Masque of the Red Death' all over again. A decadent elite party while civilization crumbles about their ears."”
The Graveyard Book on The Cat in the Hat: “Silas appeared at the front of the Owenses' cosy tomb carrying three large books – two of them brightly coloured alphabet books ('A is for Apple, B is for Ball') and a copy of The Cat in the Hat.”
The Graveyard Book on Robinson Crusoe: “So Thackeray Porringer had died in a fury, clutching his copy of Robinson Crusoe, which was, apart from a silver sixpence with the edges clipped and the clothes he had formerly been standing up in, all that he owned.”