That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
NEIL GAIMANOnly the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?
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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
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I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
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People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
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What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.
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Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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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.
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Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination.
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To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
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You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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