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.
NEIL GAIMANAn Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
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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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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
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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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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 can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
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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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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
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What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.
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