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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.

Neil Gaiman

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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Break Dream Easy Heart People Weakness
The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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Philosophy See Sky World
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
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Deep Goodness Lying Story True
Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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Death Deep One Liner Wound
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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Herself Nature Rain Remember Try
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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Deep Myself Run
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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Courage Future Philosophy
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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Darkness Friendship Heart Hurt Imagination Leaving Love
Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Deep Scared
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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Fly Inspirational Kill Wake Up
Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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Fight Library One Liner
I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
NEIL GAIMAN

Believe Myself Philosophy True
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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Children Morning Myself Philosophy Travel
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Death Deep Life
You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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Believe Inspirational Yourself
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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Dream Goodness Hope Kiss Mad Magic Thinking

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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