Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
NEIL GAIMANIf you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
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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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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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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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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 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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What do stars do? They shine.
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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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Libraries are our friends.
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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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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination.
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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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You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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