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. (from 'Instructions') Neil Gaiman More Quotes by Neil Gaiman More Quotes From Neil Gaiman It’s a New Year and with it comes a fresh opportunity to shape our world. So this is my wish, a wish for me as much as it is a wish for you: in the world to come, let us be brave – let us walk into the dark without fear, and step into the unknown with smiles on our faces, even if we’re faking them. And whatever happens to us, whatever we make, whatever we learn, let us take joy in it. We can find joy in the world if it’s joy we’re looking for, we can take joy in the act of creation. So that is my wish for you, and for me. Bravery and joy. Neil Gaiman new-year dark opportunity It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism. Neil Gaiman twenties civilization two Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear. Neil Gaiman two sex people It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud. Neil Gaiman easier loud lying It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling. Neil Gaiman good-times party home [D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read. Neil Gaiman healing book hands I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible. Neil Gaiman flexible real book Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost. Neil Gaiman freedom-of-speech like-you stuff I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else. Neil Gaiman reading inspirational book Let's start a new tomorrow, today. Neil Gaiman cherish-every-moment future inspirational 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. Neil Gaiman stardust philosopher stars Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost. Neil Gaiman phoenix doe lost I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy. Neil Gaiman hurt happiness life Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children? Neil Gaiman media children thinking I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge. Neil Gaiman suicide bridges I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were. Neil Gaiman adults stories children Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. Neil Gaiman reading book world We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable. Neil Gaiman unforgettable dream forever Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world. Neil Gaiman age looks world It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there was a little phantom version of you sitting on your shoulder with a notebook going, I can use this. OK, look at the way that the light is glinting off the broken plastic on the road next to the blood. You can use this. And it was always a very strange feeling. Neil Gaiman notebook light blood
