Neil Gaiman quotes
Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don't. I don't. People are much more complicated than that. It's true of everybody. 
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. 
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. 
Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end. 
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! 
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot. 
I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time. 
Do not lose hope - what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. 
Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. Neil Gaiman Short quotes ⇑
Short Quotes
I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go. 
That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed. 
We often confuse what we wish for with what is. 
All Neil Gaiman quotes ⇑
Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
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?
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.
You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
You don't have to stay anywhere forever.
I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.
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.
Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?'
The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
Libraries are our friends.
Words save our lives, sometimes.
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore, it knows it's not foolin' a soul.
Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
Black as night, sweet as sin.
But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.
Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered.