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 GAIMANMay your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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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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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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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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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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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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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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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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There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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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 can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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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 have to stay anywhere forever.
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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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