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I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.

Neil Gaiman

You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
NEIL GAIMAN

Enough Goodness Heart Safety Yourself
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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Herself Nature Rain Remember Try
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
NEIL GAIMAN

Courage Gain Inspirational Yourself
Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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End Ideas Kill People
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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Death Reality Time
Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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Body Book Lose
I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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Carry Deep Hell Myself Philosophy Thinking
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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Deep Dream Hope Memories People Reality Thinking
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.
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Fall In Love Herself Rain Stop Thinking Time Yourself
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Children Morning Myself Philosophy Travel
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
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Animal End Friendship Future Imagination Life Yourself
That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
NEIL GAIMAN

Dream Lost Philosophy
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
NEIL GAIMAN

Life Myself Reality
You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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Important People Trust Yourself
Even nothing can last forever.
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Forever Philosophy
Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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Children Explore One Liner
I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
NEIL GAIMAN

Children Fantasy Myself Mystery Story
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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Deep Existence Fairy Tale True
This 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.
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Easy Hard Word Writing Yourself
Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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Be Yourself One Liner
You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
NEIL GAIMAN

Life Moments Philosophy Reality Yourself
Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Deep Scared
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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Enjoyment Kind Myself Philosophy
I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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Believe Communication Deep Myself Problem
An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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Angel Fall
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
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Home Spiritual
Things 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.
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Dream Endurance Forget True

I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.

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I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.

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