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Books were safer than other people anyway.

Neil Gaiman

Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
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Choice Life Path
Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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Body Book Lose
Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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Animal Believe Deserve
Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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Children Explore One Liner
Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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Inspirational One Liner Scare
Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.
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People Philosophy Reality True Yourself
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
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
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
You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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Believe Inspirational Yourself
What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.
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Book Myself Soul
This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.
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Easy Hard Word Writing Yourself
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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Library Right Worth
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
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
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Book Fantasy Man Naked
And did I pass?” The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left, the younger woman said, “You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.
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Failure Person Philosophy Right Woman
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
She says nothing at all but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
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Dance Darkness Eyes Simplicity Sky Stars
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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Life Myself Teaching Worth
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
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Courage Gain Inspirational Yourself
Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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Death Deep One Liner Wound
I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
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Children Fantasy Myself Mystery Story
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Death Deep Life
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
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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Deep Existence Fairy Tale True
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
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.
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Deep Heart Love Vulnerable Yourself

Books were safer than other people anyway.

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