I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
NEIL GAIMANBiting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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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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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.
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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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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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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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You get what anybody gets – you get a lifetime.
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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
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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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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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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
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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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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.
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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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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 am selfish, private, and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
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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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All your questions can be answered if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
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Libraries are our friends.
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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
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