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Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and ...
NEIL GAIMAN
I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a l...
NEIL GAIMAN
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no cl...
NEIL GAIMAN
All around me darkness gathers,
Fading is the sun that shone,
We must speak of other mat...
NEIL GAIMAN
We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
NEIL GAIMAN
We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the conseque...
NEIL GAIMAN
You don't have to stay anywhere forever.
NEIL GAIMAN
Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life......
NEIL GAIMAN
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and i...
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
On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Co...
NEIL GAIMAN
They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one...
NEIL GAIMAN
The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be...
NEIL GAIMAN