People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.
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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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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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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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Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie.” That’s why they’re monsters.
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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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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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
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Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
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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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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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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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