I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
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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It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.
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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
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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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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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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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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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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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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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All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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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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