I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
NEIL GAIMANI went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
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 GAIMANGoogle can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
NEIL GAIMANIn 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 GAIMANI do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
NEIL GAIMANBlack as night, sweet as sin.
NEIL GAIMANLife is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
NEIL GAIMANWhatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
NEIL GAIMANNot only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
NEIL GAIMANWhat 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.
NEIL GAIMANBecause,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
NEIL GAIMANA book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
NEIL GAIMANA 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.
NEIL GAIMANI think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
NEIL GAIMANThe sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
NEIL GAIMANI 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?
NEIL GAIMAN