Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
NEIL GAIMAN
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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend.
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Libraries are our friends.
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I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
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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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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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All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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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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