Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
NEIL GAIMANHe 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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
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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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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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Libraries are our friends.
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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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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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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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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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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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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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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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Have 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.
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