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.
NEIL GAIMANYou can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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I 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?
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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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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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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.
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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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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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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 would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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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 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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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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