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.
NEIL GAIMANOnly the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgot.
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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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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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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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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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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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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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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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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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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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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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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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