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.
NEIL GAIMANMay 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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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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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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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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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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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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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside.
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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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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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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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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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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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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There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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