In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
NEIL GAIMANNobody 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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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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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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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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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What do stars do? They shine.
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Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again. Whenever it rains you will think of her.
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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And did I pass?” The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left, the younger woman said, “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.
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This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.
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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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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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