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 want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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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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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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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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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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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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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
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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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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
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