Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
NEIL GAIMANTo absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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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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What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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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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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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What do stars do? They shine.
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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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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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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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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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There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
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If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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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 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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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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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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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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Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again. Whenever it rains you will think of her.
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