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 GAIMANFace your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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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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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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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 believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
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People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
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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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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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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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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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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend.
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You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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