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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.

Neil Gaiman

Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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Deep End Happiness Philosophy
Black as night, sweet as sin.
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Night One Liner Sin
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Death Deep Life
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 future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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Courage Future Philosophy
Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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Change Lost Rise 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
Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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End Ideas Kill People
Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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Death Deep One Liner Wound
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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Philosophy Secret World
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
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
There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
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Herself Nature Rain Remember Try
It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
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Believe Happiness Live People Yourself
Books were safer than other people anyway.
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Book Greatness People Safety
Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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Kiss Win

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