Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
NEIL GAIMANOh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgot.
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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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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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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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Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again. Whenever it rains you will think of her.
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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
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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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