There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
NEIL GAIMANThere are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
NEIL GAIMANI went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
NEIL GAIMANI hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
NEIL GAIMANBooks 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!
NEIL GAIMANWhat power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
NEIL GAIMANFairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
NEIL GAIMANI liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
NEIL GAIMANSometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
NEIL GAIMANBooks were safer than other people anyway.
NEIL GAIMANEven nothing can last forever.
NEIL GAIMANStories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
NEIL GAIMANEvery hour wounds. The last one kills.
NEIL GAIMANPeople want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
NEIL GAIMANIt’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.
NEIL GAIMANSeveral 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.
NEIL GAIMANLibraries are our friends.
NEIL GAIMAN