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.
NEIL GAIMANThings 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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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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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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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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I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
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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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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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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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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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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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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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Libraries are our friends.
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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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