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?
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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What do stars do? They shine.
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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
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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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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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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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Even nothing can last forever.
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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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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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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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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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What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgot.
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