There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
NEIL GAIMANOh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.
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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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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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Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
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People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
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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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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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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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May 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.
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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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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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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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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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