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.
NEIL GAIMANSeveral 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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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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I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not.
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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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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The 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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Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
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To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
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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 think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend.
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A 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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You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
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Black as night, sweet as sin.
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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