But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
NEIL GAIMANMost 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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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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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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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 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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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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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
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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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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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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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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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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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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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Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
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