It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
NEIL GAIMANTo absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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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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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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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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I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
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He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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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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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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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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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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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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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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