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.
NEIL GAIMANPicking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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 sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
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This 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.
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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.
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In 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.
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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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Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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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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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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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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