She says nothing at all but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
NEIL GAIMANYou don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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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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Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
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There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
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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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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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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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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 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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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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