I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
NEIL GAIMANAnyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.
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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgot.
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Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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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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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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A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.
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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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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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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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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside.
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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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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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The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
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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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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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