You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
NEIL GAIMANEvery lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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And did I pass?” The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left, the younger woman said, “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.
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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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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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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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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 think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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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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There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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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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Libraries are our friends.
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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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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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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again. Whenever it rains you will think of her.
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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
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She says nothing at all but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
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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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