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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

“When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right" we whisper, "I'm here, I love you." and we lie: "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days

“You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes

“It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us," said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods: Tenth Anniversary

“Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.”
― Neil Gaiman

“We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“Tristan and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“The lower you start, the more opportunities you have.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

“Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?"
"Then what died? who are you mourning?"
"A point of view.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake

“Anyone who calls you "little lady" has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

“Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things -- like George Macdonald's 19th century fairy stories, the fairy poetry of W.B. Yeats, and Sylvia Townsend Warner's splendid book The Kingdoms of Elfin. (I think that particular book of hers wasn't published until the 1970s, not long before her death, but she was an English writer popular in the middle decades of the 20th century.)

I'm also a big Pre-Raphaelite fan, so I love William Morris' early fantasy novels.

Oh, and "Lud-in-the-Mist" by Hope Mirrlees (Neil Gaiman is a big fan of that one too), and I could go on and on but I won't!”
― Terri Windling

“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles”
― Tahereh Mafi

“Only the sweetest of the sweet would bring brownies to the apocalypse.”
― Shelly Crane, Collide

“It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.”
― Orson Scott Card, The Folk of the Fringe

“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you”
― Orson Scott Card, Sarah

“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”
― Orson Scott Card, Alvin Journeyman

“Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
― John Green

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild