I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
NEIL GAIMANOnly the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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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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Books 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!
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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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’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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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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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
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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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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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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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