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?
NEIL GAIMANThe house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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Even nothing can last forever.
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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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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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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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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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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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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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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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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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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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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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