Books were safer than other people anyway.
NEIL GAIMANLove 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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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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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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.
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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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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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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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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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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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I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
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