This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.
NEIL GAIMANHe 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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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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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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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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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 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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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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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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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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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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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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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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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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May 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 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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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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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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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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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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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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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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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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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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