The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
NEIL GAIMANYou don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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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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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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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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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’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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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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