You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
NEIL GAIMANWhat power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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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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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 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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What do stars do? They shine.
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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside.
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I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
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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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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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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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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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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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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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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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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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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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There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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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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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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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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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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