Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
NEIL GAIMANYou don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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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.
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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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And did I pass?” The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left, the younger woman said, “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.
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It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
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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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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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I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.
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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
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I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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