Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
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All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
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I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
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What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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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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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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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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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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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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To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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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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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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