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.
NEIL GAIMANPeople 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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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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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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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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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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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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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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside.
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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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.
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I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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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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