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 GAIMANNobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
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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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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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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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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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She says nothing at all but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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It’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.
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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