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 GAIMANI 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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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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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Books 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!
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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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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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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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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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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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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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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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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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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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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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What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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