People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
NEIL GAIMANPeople want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
NEIL GAIMANOh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
NEIL GAIMANI went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
NEIL GAIMANI am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
NEIL GAIMANI liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
NEIL GAIMANMay your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.
NEIL GAIMANYou have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
NEIL GAIMANOnly the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
NEIL GAIMANYou don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
NEIL GAIMANI do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
NEIL GAIMANI’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
NEIL GAIMANTo absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
NEIL GAIMANWhatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
NEIL GAIMANI think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
NEIL GAIMANSometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
NEIL GAIMANThe future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
NEIL GAIMAN