But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
NEIL GAIMANHave 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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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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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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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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