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 GAIMANAnd 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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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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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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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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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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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You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
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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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