Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
NEIL GAIMANEvery lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
NEIL GAIMANHave 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.
NEIL GAIMANBooks 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 GAIMANAnyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
NEIL GAIMANI 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?
NEIL GAIMANSometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
NEIL GAIMANI liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
NEIL GAIMANPeople want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
NEIL GAIMANYou can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
NEIL GAIMANThe sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
NEIL GAIMANEverybody 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.
NEIL GAIMANOh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
NEIL GAIMANBecause,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
NEIL GAIMANEven nothing can last forever.
NEIL GAIMANThe house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
NEIL GAIMANOnly the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
NEIL GAIMAN