I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
NEIL GAIMANBecause,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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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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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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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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Nobody 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.
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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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What do stars do? They shine.
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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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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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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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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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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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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