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Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

Neil Gaiman

I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
NEIL GAIMAN

Carry Deep Hell Myself Philosophy Thinking
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
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
Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
NEIL GAIMAN

Choice Life Path
I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
NEIL GAIMAN

Life Myself Teaching Worth
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Believe Myself Philosophy True
You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
NEIL GAIMAN

Forever One Liner Stay Yourself
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep Myself Run
There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
NEIL GAIMAN

Break Dream Easy Heart People Weakness
Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination.
NEIL GAIMAN

Darkness Friendship Heart Hurt Imagination Leaving Love
What do stars do? They shine.
NEIL GAIMAN

One Liner Shine Stars
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Fall In Love Herself Rain Stop Thinking Time Yourself
It’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 GAIMAN

Let Go Philosophy Yourself
Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
NEIL GAIMAN

Fight Library One Liner
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
NEIL GAIMAN

Courage Future Philosophy
Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
NEIL GAIMAN

Change Lost Rise True

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