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 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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What do stars do? They shine.
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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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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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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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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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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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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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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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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
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And did I pass?” The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left, the younger woman said, “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.
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