I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
NEIL GAIMANI do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
NEIL GAIMANI believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
NEIL GAIMANYou get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
NEIL GAIMANThis 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.
NEIL GAIMANI lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
NEIL GAIMANAnd 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.
NEIL GAIMANEvery hour wounds. The last one kills.
NEIL GAIMANThere’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
NEIL GAIMANIdeas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
NEIL GAIMANYou can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
NEIL GAIMANI think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
NEIL GAIMANLove 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.
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.
NEIL GAIMANBooks 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!
NEIL GAIMANBecause,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
NEIL GAIMANEven nothing can last forever.
NEIL GAIMAN