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.
NEIL GAIMANThings 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.
NEIL GAIMANThe sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
NEIL GAIMANAdventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
NEIL GAIMANWords save our lives, sometimes.
NEIL GAIMANWhat power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
NEIL GAIMANBooks were safer than other people anyway.
NEIL GAIMANEvery lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
NEIL GAIMANBeing 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.
NEIL GAIMANBooks make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
NEIL GAIMANShe says nothing at all but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
NEIL GAIMANFace your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
NEIL GAIMANWe often confuse what we wish for with what is.
NEIL GAIMANI went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
NEIL GAIMANThere 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.
NEIL GAIMANI hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
NEIL GAIMANPeople want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
NEIL GAIMAN