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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Includes the Story “How to Talk to Girls at Parties” - Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Nicole KidmanA24 Film Directed by John Cameron Mitchell also Stars Elle Fanning and Ruth Wilson

(6 total)

Characters

Neil Gaiman (6)

“Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Dreams, heart, strength, fragility

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

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: fragile, Broken Dreams, Broken Hearts, Human Emotions

“In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the lips and face and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smile and kept moving.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Depression, Death, Living

“There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Illusions, Life

“Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: Heartbreak, Love

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

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

Tagged: fragile, Heartbreak, Dreams, Love