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Heart Quotes by Neil Gaiman

48 Heart quotes by Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman explores how the heart can feel both haunted and hopeful. He describes a hole that opens a gateway to unseen worlds and mentions that trust in dreams and in one’s own courage can fill that space. His lines also compare fleeting beauty to deeper inner strength.

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“She was far from gruntled.”

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Go get your heart broken.

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Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.

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There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.

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“She seemed able to go to sleep whenever she wanted to, a skill I envied and did not have.”

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There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.

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You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

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It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats.

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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

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“(Who Did No Harm to No Man all the Dais of Her Life. Reader, Can You Say Lykewise?).”

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“But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open.”

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Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you…

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I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start.

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You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer Show part is…

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I know not whether you came to me or I to you. Not whether it was a dream, asleep or awake. I…

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My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn’t belong to me…

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The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our…

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Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked…

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It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out…

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We have to get the... the thing I got... to the Angel. And then he'll tell Door about her family, and he'll…

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“For a moment she felt utterly dislocated. She did not know where she was; she was not entirely sure who she was.…

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“She did not know where she was; she was not entirely sure who she was. It is astonishing just how much of…

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Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it,…

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Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts…

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He felt her heart beating against his chest. The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should…

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They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was…

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It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There…

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Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most…

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I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny.

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“After four days of flight, she had found a hiding place...”

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“No one had hugged her like that since she had retired from the theater.”

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There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

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How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to…

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Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or…

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But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the…

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A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which…

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She found herself to be quite worried that something would jump out at her, so she began to whistle. She thought it…

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A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or…

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It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out…

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I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched…

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So many things to see, people to do.

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.’ – Ben Franklin,”

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“The quickest way is sometimes the longest.”

“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.”

Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.

What do stars do? They shine.

“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr…

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody”