Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
NEIL GAIMANThat which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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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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What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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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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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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