Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
NEIL GAIMANThe 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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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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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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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
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Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again. Whenever it rains you will think of her.
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I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn’t mean anything? What then?
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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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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I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.
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What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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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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I am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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