Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
NEIL GAIMANI liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
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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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He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
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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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When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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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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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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I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend.
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There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
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The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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Even nothing can last forever.
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A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.
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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
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Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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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.
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I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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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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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.
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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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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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