The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
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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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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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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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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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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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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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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It’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.
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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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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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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 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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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
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