But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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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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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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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If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
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What do stars do? They shine.
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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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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.
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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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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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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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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
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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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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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There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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