Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
NEIL GAIMANThe sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Have 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.
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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
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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?
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I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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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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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.
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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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