Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
NEIL GAIMANWherever you go, you take yourself with you.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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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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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
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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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If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
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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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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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Being 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.
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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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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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Libraries are our friends.
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I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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