I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
NEIL GAIMANThere 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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination.
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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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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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To 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.
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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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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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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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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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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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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Even nothing can last forever.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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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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