Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
NEIL GAIMANOnly the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
NEIL GAIMANBlack as night, sweet as sin.
NEIL GAIMANYou don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
NEIL GAIMANIt’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.
NEIL GAIMANI liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
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 GAIMANYou can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
NEIL GAIMANI lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
NEIL GAIMANI think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
NEIL GAIMANPicking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
NEIL GAIMANLove takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination.
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 GAIMANAn Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
NEIL GAIMANBut how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
NEIL GAIMANHave 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.
NEIL GAIMANWhat 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.
NEIL GAIMAN