I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
NEIL GAIMANThis is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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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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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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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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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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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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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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