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.
NEIL GAIMANSeveral 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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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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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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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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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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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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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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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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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Libraries are our friends.
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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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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
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