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I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?

Neil Gaiman

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
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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Friendship Love Myself Thinking
Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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Inspirational One Liner Scare
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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Dream Endurance Forget True
Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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Kiss Win
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
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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Library Right Worth
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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Book Dream Hands
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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Deep Dream Hope Memories People Reality Thinking
You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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Important People Trust Yourself
Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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Bravery Herself Scare Yourself
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.
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Let Go Philosophy Yourself
There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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Blind Ignorance One Liner
You don’t have to stay anywhere forever.
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Forever One Liner Stay Yourself
Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Deep Scared
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
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
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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Home Spiritual
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
Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.
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Fight Library One Liner
Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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End Ideas Kill People
I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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Easy Myself Problem
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Death Deep Life
We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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One Liner Story Talk
Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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Children Explore One Liner
Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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Change Lost Rise True
An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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Angel Fall

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