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NEIL GAIMAN She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you k... NEIL GAIMAN I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she... NEIL GAIMAN We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things... NEIL GAIMAN It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire me... NEIL GAIMAN You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a ph... NEIL GAIMAN Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more c... NEIL GAIMAN There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place... NEIL GAIMAN In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glitt... NEIL GAIMAN The [Five Second Rule] has many variations, including The Three Second Rule, The Seven Second Rule, ... NEIL PASRICHA Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea? NEIL GAIMAN Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragi... NEIL GAIMAN Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or w... NEIL GAIMAN There's none so blind as those who will not listen. NEIL GAIMAN Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell u... NEIL GAIMAN There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire. NEIL GAIMAN For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of... NEIL GAIMAN She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap... NEIL GAIMAN The cat looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said... NEIL GAIMAN For a moment she felt utterly dislocated. She did not know where she was; she was not entirely sure ... NEIL GAIMAN It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't ... NEIL GAIMAN There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud. NEIL GAIMAN