Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
NEIL GAIMANPeople want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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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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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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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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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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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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Even nothing can last forever.
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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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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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
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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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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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