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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 Gaiman

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.
NEIL GAIMAN

Easy Hard Word Writing Yourself
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Believe Happiness Live People Yourself
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
NEIL GAIMAN

Book Dream Hands
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep Dream Hope Memories People Reality Thinking
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
NEIL GAIMAN

Home Spiritual
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
NEIL GAIMAN

Book Live Myself One Liner
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
NEIL GAIMAN

Inspirational Life Pain Yourself
I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?
NEIL GAIMAN

Enjoyment Kind Myself Philosophy
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
NEIL GAIMAN

Life Myself Reality
The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
NEIL GAIMAN

Philosophy See Sky World
Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep End Happiness Philosophy
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.”
NEIL GAIMAN

Alive Believe Deep Enjoyment Game Life Myself
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
NEIL GAIMAN

Deep Existence Fairy Tale True
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.
NEIL GAIMAN

Philosophy Secret World
I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend.
NEIL GAIMAN

Friendship Love Myself Thinking
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
NEIL GAIMAN

Goodness Hell Writing

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.

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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.

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