Books were safer than other people anyway.
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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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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She says nothing at all but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
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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 sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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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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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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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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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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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.
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What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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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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The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
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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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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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