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.
NEIL GAIMANIt’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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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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I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
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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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And did I pass?” The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left, the younger woman said, “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.
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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
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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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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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