Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
NEIL GAIMANA philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really…”Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question.
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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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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Even nothing can last forever.
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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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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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If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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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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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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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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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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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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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.
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