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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.

Neil Gaiman

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
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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Poet Quite Winner Writing
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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Book Dream Hands
You have a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.
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Enough Goodness Heart Safety Yourself
Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Deep Scared
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.
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Dream Goodness Hope Kiss Mad Magic Thinking
I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
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God Myself 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
Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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Death Deep One Liner Wound
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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Philosophy Walk Yourself
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
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
Even nothing can last forever.
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Forever Philosophy
I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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Believe Communication Deep Myself Problem
Black as night, sweet as sin.
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Night One Liner Sin
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
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
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Library Right Worth
You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Change Philosophy Self Love Yourself
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
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
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
Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
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Adventure Freedom. Pain Place
Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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Kiss Win
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
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
I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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Easy Myself Problem
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

You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.

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