Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
NEIL GAIMANYou have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.
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When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.
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Even nothing can last forever.
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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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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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What do stars do? They shine.
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What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
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A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.
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Have 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.
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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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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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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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