Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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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The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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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.
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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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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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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
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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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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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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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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.
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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
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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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