If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
NEIL GAIMANHave you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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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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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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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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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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What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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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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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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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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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
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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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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgot.
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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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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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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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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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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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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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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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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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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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