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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

Neil Gaiman

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
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
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 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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Life Myself Reality
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
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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Fly Inspirational Kill Wake Up
I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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Believe Communication Deep Myself Problem
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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Death Reality Time
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
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
Books were safer than other people anyway.
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Book Greatness People Safety
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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Heart Love Lover Mad
Words save our lives, sometimes.
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Live One Liner Save Word
Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Deep Scared
There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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Blind Ignorance One Liner
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

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