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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

Neil Gaiman

I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
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Life Myself Teaching Worth
Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
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Choice Life Path
Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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Body Book Lose
You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
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Enough Goodness Heart Safety Yourself
Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again. Whenever it rains you will think of her.
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Fall In Love Herself Rain Stop Thinking Time Yourself
Black as night, sweet as sin.
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Night One Liner Sin
An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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Angel Fall
There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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Blind Ignorance One Liner
Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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Death Deep One Liner Wound
Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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Be Yourself One Liner
What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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Deep Dream Heaven Hell Philosophy Power Spiritual
There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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Break Dream Easy Heart People Weakness
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.
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Deep Heart Love Vulnerable Yourself
In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
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Heart Kiss People Perfection See Touch
We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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One Liner Story Talk
Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
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Adventure Freedom. Pain Place

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