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.
NEIL GAIMANSometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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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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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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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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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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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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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again. Whenever it rains you will think of her.
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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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What do stars do? They shine.
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