You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
NEIL GAIMANBecause,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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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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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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I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
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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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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
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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 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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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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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.
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