I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
NEIL GAIMANBeing a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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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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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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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
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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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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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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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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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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
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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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