"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."
"Sometimes
you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you
fly."
"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."
"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."
"Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a
song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very
few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice
with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too
odd. So people live their song instead."
"Fiction
allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through
other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously
and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the
book, and we resume our lives.”
- Neil Gaiman
