Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgot.
NEIL GAIMANYou have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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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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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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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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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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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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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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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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It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
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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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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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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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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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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.
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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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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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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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