People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
NEIL GAIMANWe owe it to each other to tell stories.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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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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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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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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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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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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Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again. Whenever it rains you will think of her.
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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And did I pass?” The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left, the younger woman said, “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.
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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 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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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
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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.
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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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