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.
NEIL GAIMANI mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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Libraries are our friends.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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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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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.
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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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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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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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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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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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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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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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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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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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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To 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.
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I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
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Even nothing can last forever.
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What do stars do? They shine.
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In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
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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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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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