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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

Neil Gaiman

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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Life Myself Reality
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep One Liner Philosophy
An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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Angel Fall
To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
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Absence Devil Friendship Lost Season
All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
NEIL GAIMAN

Learning Philosophy Yourself
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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Fall In Love Herself Rain Stop Thinking Time Yourself
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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Book Dream Hands
You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
NEIL GAIMAN

Believe Inspirational Yourself
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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Heart Love Lover Mad
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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Children Fantasy Myself Mystery Story
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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Fly Inspirational Kill Wake Up
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
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Greatness Happiness Missing Myself
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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Book Gift Greatness World
I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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Believe Communication Deep Myself Problem
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Dream Endurance Forget True
He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
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Deep Myself Run

You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

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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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