Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
NEIL GAIMANI lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.
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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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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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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgot.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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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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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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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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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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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.
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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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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.
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