Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
NEIL GAIMANLove 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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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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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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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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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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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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
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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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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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