Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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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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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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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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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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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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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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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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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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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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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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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Libraries are our friends.
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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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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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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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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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What do stars do? They shine.
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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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A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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