Words save our lives, sometimes.
NEIL GAIMANA book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
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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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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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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.
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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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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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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 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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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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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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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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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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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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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
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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.
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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.
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