Quote by Neil Gaiman (about Imagination, Muscles)

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

Neil Gaiman

Imagination Muscles

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Fear Courage

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.

Neil Gaiman in The Sandman

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

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Fairytales Dragons

The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.

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World Sky

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together. They like being solitary together.

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Writing Solitude & Loneliness

You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.

Neil Gaiman in The Sandman - Endless Nights

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

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Failures & Mistakes Learning

By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and the world would wake into itself again.

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Spring March

The price of getting what you want is getting what you once wanted.

Neil Gaiman in The Sandman - A Midsummer Night's Dream

What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?

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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.

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Dreaming

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.

Neil Gaiman in The Sandman - Dream Country

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

Neil Gaiman in The Sandman - The Doll's House

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

Neil Gaiman in The Sandman - Fables & Reflections

Dreams shape the world.

Neil Gaiman in The Sandman - Dream Country

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

Neil Gaiman in The Sandman - Dream Country

"I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear."
"Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out."

Neil Gaiman in The Sandman - Fables & Reflections

"Is there a word for forgetting the name of someone when you want to introduce them to someone else at the same time you realize you've forgotten the name of the person you're introducing them to as well?"
"No."

Neil Gaiman in The Sandman - Brief Lives

"You will forget. Death or life will take him from your minds."
"I know," whispered Despair, in her distant, empty voice. "But I shall remember him."

Neil Gaiman in The Sandman - The Wake

Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?

Neil Gaiman in The Sandman - Dream Country

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Imagination

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

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Reason & Sanity Imagination

The heart is a muscle, and what do muscles do when they're torn? They grow back stronger.

Heart Muscles

Caroline: "What'd you see in that guy, anyway?"
Max: "He had these muscle thingies."
Caroline: "Oh, those things?"
Max: "Yeah. I don't know what those are called, but they make smart girls stupid."

Max Black in 2 Broke Girls - Season 1 Episode 1

Muscles

You mortals go about your work, your loves, your wars, as if your waking lives are all that matter.

Dream / Morpheus in The Sandman - Season 1 Episode 1

No one must be allowed to fall asleep in his presence. No one. Or he will escape into your dreams and you don't want that.

The Corinthian in The Sandman - Season 1 Episode 1

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

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Age

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

I want you to help them open... because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Paulo Coelho

Change Beginning

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children & Childhood Family Parents

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Darkness

The Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

Hogwarts

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Falling in love

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Love Beauty Valentine's Day

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty Love declerations

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

Solitude & Loneliness

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

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Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

"Lost something?"
"Yes, my mind."

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The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

"It's no use fretting for what you can't get," croaked the raven. "Does being angry make any difference? Be sensible! What can you do about it?"

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Anger

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