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.
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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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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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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You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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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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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.
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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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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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And did I pass?” The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left, the younger woman said, “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.
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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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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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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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What do stars do? They shine.
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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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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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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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I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
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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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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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