I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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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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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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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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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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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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What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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What do stars do? They shine.
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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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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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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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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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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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