An Angel who did not so much fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
NEIL GAIMANThere’s none so blind as those who will not listen.
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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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Adults follow paths. Children explore.
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I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
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Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
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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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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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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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Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
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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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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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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
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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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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
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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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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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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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Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
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When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.
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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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Words save our lives, sometimes.
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Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.
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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
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