Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
NEIL GAIMANEverybody 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.
More Neil Gaiman Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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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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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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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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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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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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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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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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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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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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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.
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