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.
NEIL GAIMANBiting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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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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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.
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I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
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Libraries are our friends.
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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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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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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.
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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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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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