You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
NEIL GAIMANA 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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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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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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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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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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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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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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What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.
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To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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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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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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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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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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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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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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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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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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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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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 think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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