Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
NEIL GAIMANMost books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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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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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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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
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Books 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!
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Libraries are our friends.
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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Even nothing can last forever.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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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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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 liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
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I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
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I 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.”
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I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend.
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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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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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If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
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You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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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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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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