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.
NEIL GAIMANEvery lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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Libraries are our friends.
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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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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.
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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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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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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There 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.
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A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.
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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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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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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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