We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
NEIL GAIMANWe often confuse what we wish for with what is.
NEIL GAIMANLove 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.
NEIL GAIMANWhen 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.
NEIL GAIMANYou don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
NEIL GAIMANYou’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
NEIL GAIMANBut how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
NEIL GAIMANWords save our lives, sometimes.
NEIL GAIMANI am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
NEIL GAIMANTomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
NEIL GAIMANI do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
NEIL GAIMANI would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
NEIL GAIMANThings 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 GAIMANOh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
NEIL GAIMANPeople want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
NEIL GAIMANIf you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
NEIL GAIMANAdults follow paths. Children explore.
NEIL GAIMAN