I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
NEIL GAIMANThere are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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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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All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
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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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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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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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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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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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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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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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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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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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