I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
NEIL GAIMANIt’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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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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You don’t have to stay anywhere 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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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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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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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?
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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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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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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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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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Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
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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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