Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
NEIL GAIMANPicking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
NEIL GAIMANStories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
NEIL GAIMANThere are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
NEIL GAIMANI went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
NEIL GAIMANWherever you go, you take yourself with you.
NEIL GAIMANThe future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
NEIL GAIMANI lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
NEIL GAIMANIt’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.
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.
NEIL GAIMANSometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
NEIL GAIMANSeveral 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.
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.
NEIL GAIMANIt’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.
NEIL GAIMANWe often confuse what we wish for with what is.
NEIL GAIMANPeople 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.
NEIL GAIMANI believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
NEIL GAIMAN