I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
NEIL GAIMANAll your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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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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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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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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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.
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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.
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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
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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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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
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