Adults follow paths. Children explore.
NEIL GAIMANSometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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And did I pass?” The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left, the younger woman said, “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.
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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
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It’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.
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There 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.
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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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The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
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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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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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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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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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Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
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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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I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
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Libraries are our friends.
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