This book is so beautiful and everything I love about books. The combination of whimsy and fairytales mixed with human emotions and wants. 
 "He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and smiling gently, as if they had spent so much time above the world, watching the scrambling and the joy and the pain of the people below them, that they could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does." 
 A Star and a half human, a man and a fairy, a fairy turned into a bird, witches looking for eternal youth, princes fighting for a crown, ghosts and unicorns. This isn't even the start of all the magic that is included in this tiny story. 
 I felt like Stardust was a mix of The Little Prince and Alice in Wonderland but something uniquely unlike those stories as it's in a league of its on. I now understand why Neil Gaiman is a favourite of so many his writing is amazing and my review will never be able to do it justice. 
 Thank you to everyone who recommended I start his books here, I feel in love with the world from the first chapter. The people of Wall, the fairy land, the creatures, the fate of the fallen star, all of it combined with a huge dose of beautiful writing makes Stardust just extraordinary. 
 "There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks."