That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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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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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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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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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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She says nothing at all but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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Several 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.
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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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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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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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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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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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend.
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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?
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He 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.
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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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What do stars do? They shine.
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Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
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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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I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
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