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.
NEIL GAIMANLife is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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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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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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A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.
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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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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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Libraries are our friends.
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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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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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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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