Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody? Neil Gaiman More Quotes by Neil Gaiman More Quotes From Neil Gaiman Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps. Neil Gaiman harder luck helping Take what you have learned, and move on. Neil Gaiman moving To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel. Neil Gaiman portraits despair eye You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand. Neil Gaiman okay hurt hands They could not truly look dead, because they did not ever look alive. Neil Gaiman alive looks You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door. Neil Gaiman dangerous doors way Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them. Neil Gaiman adults mother comfort Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good raw, and then put them in tins, and make them revolting. Neil Gaiman peas baffled tin Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't. Neil Gaiman monsters long people Does it make you feel big to make a little boy cry? Neil Gaiman doe littles boys I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger. Neil Gaiman dark life reality As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time. Neil Gaiman parent age long There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book. Neil Gaiman party mother football Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my heart. Some of them. Not all. Neil Gaiman empty-places knowing art A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having...if not died, then having given up her life. It wasn't fair. "Life's not fair," said Ginnie, as if I had spoken aloud. Neil Gaiman alive trying needs Sometimes the way to do what you hope to do will be clear cut, and sometimes it will be almost impossible to decide whether or not you are doing the correct thing, because you'll have to balance your goals and hopes with feeding yourself, paying debts, finding work, settling for what you can get. Neil Gaiman balance cutting goal I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories never made sense, and they were slow to start. They made me feel like there were secrets, Masonic, mythic secrets, to adulthood. Why didn't adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies? Neil Gaiman secret islands children Oh, monsters are scared. That's why they're monsters. Neil Gaiman scared monsters said I knew enough about adults to know that if did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely seemed to believe me when I told the truth anyway. Neil Gaiman adults enough believe That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together. Neil Gaiman cat memories life
