A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
NEIL GAIMANMost books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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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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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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Even nothing can last forever.
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There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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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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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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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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Libraries are our friends.
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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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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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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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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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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.
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You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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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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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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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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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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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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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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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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