Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
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 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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The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
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I would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
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What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.
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An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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Even nothing can last forever.
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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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Several 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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Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you’re doing something.
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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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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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You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
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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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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
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Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
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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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Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
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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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You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.
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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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The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
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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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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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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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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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