The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
NEIL GAIMANSometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Love 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.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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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 get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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It’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.
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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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It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
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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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What 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.
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Being 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.
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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
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