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.
NEIL GAIMANBooks 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!
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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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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Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
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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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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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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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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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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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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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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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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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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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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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