Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
NEIL GAIMANYou have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
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Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
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A 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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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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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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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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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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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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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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You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
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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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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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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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Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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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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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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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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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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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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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
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I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.
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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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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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