Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
NEIL GAIMANWhatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
NEIL GAIMANOh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
NEIL GAIMANThe sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
NEIL GAIMANEverybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside.
NEIL GAIMANThe future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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 GAIMANThere’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
NEIL GAIMANHave you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
NEIL GAIMANShe says nothing at all but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
NEIL GAIMANIn 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.
NEIL GAIMANAdults follow paths. Children explore.
NEIL GAIMANYou have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
NEIL GAIMANBut how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
NEIL GAIMANIt’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.
NEIL GAIMANFairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
NEIL GAIMANIt’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.
NEIL GAIMAN