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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

Neil Gaiman

An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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Angel Fall
I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
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Crazy Myself
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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Learning Philosophy Yourself
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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Fall In Love Herself Rain Stop Thinking Time Yourself
People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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Forget Impossible People Safety World
You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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Forever One Liner Stay Yourself
In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
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Heart Kiss People Perfection See Touch
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
It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
NEIL GAIMAN

Believe Happiness Live People Yourself
Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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Deep End Happiness Philosophy
Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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Fight Library One Liner
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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Greatness Happiness Missing Myself
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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Adventure Freedom. Pain Place
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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God Myself Time
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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Library Right Worth
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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Deep One Liner Philosophy

You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

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