Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
NEIL GAIMANThere are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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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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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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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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Libraries are our friends.
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend.
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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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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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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to 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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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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