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.
NEIL GAIMANAdventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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Even nothing can last forever.
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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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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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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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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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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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What do stars do? They shine.
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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.
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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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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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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