““Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.””
"Telling stories to my children that I was, in my turn, told by my parents and grandparents makes me feel part of something special and odd, part of the continuous stream of life itself."
- Neil Gaiman
Love
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
- Neil Gaiman
Love
"Everybody is going to be dead one day, just give them time."
- Neil Gaiman
Awareness
"Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism."
- Neil Gaiman
Balance
"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."
- Neil Gaiman
Hope
"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."
- Beauty and the Beast
Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
- Tracee Ellis Ross
Courage
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Courage
"Courage, dear heart."
- C.S. Lewis
Courage