It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.


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NEIL GAIMAN
Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Facets, Matthew. Each facet catches the light in its own way. It glints and sparkles and flashes uni...
NEIL GAIMAN
Love takes hostages.
NEIL GAIMAN
We are all improved by the glow of memory.
NEIL GAIMAN
As-tu déjà été amoureux? C'est horrible non? Ca rend si vulnérable. Ca t'ouvre la poitrine et l...
NEIL GAIMAN
MORPHEUS: I did not intend to hurt you,

THESSALY: And what if you did not? Intent and out...
NEIL GAIMAN
Delirium: You use that word so much. Responsibilities. Do you ever think about what that means? I me...
NEIL GAIMAN
There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the...
NEIL GAIMAN
I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.
NEIL GAIMAN
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