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!
NEIL GAIMANWherever you go, you take yourself with you.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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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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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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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside.
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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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He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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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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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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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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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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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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What do stars do? They shine.
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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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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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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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