I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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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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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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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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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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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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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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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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Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again. Whenever it rains you will think of her.
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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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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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