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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There 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.
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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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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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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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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside.
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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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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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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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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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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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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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