We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
NEIL GAIMANIdeas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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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?
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May 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.
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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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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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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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I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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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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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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